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• bean — /bin / (say been) noun 1. the edible fruit or seed of various species of the family Fabaceae especially of the genus Phaseolus used either fresh or dried. 2. a plant producing such seeds. 3. any of various other bean like seeds or plants, as the… …  

• Bean — is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of the family Fabaceae (formerly Leguminosae) used for human food or animal feed. Although beans usually means the seeds of bean plants, it can also mean (especially in the US) the whole… …   Wikipedia

• Bean-feast — Bean feast, primarily an annual dinner given by an employer to his workmen, and by extension, colloquially, describes any jollification. The phrase is variously derived. The most probable theory is that which connects it with the custom in France …   Wikipedia

• Bean Bunny — is a fictional character, one of the Muppets. He is performed by Steve Whitmire (with a voice similar to Rizzo the Rat). Among Muppet fans, Bean is very unpopular and not viewed in the same light as the older, original Muppets. Fact|date=April… …   Wikipedia

• bean tree — noun any of several trees having seedpods as fruits • Hypernyms: ↑tree • Hyponyms: ↑tonka bean, ↑tonka bean tree, ↑Coumarouna odorata, ↑Dipteryx odorata, ↑carob, ↑carob tree, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• bean head — 1. n. an oaf. (Also as one word.) □ You are such a bean head! □ Why I keep running around with a bean head like you is beyond me. 2. n. a drug user who uses pills habitually. (Drugs.) □ You bean heads are just as much junkies as the jerks who… …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• bean pole — tall and thin, string bean    Carl is a bean pole tall and skinny just like his father …   English idioms

• bean counter —    an accountant    Hardly a euphemism but more a term of disparagement of those in a profession which, like the law, is regarded by others with a mixture of fear, envy, and derision:     Our firm had an account with the restaurant... and… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• vanilla bean — noun long bean like fruit; seeds are used as flavoring • Hypernyms: ↑flavorer, ↑flavourer, ↑flavoring, ↑flavouring, ↑seasoner, ↑seasoning • Substance Holonyms: ↑vanilla, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• white bean — /ˈwaɪt bin/ (say wuyt been) noun 1. See haricot (def. 3). 2. a tree, Ailanthus imberbiflora, of temperate eastern Australia, having long bean like pods …