| bean | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bonce, dome, noggin, noodle |
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| (noun) any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food | Synonyms: edible bean |
| (noun) any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods | Synonyms: bean plant |
| (noun) any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans | - |
| (verb) hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball | - |
| bogbean | (noun) perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface | Synonyms: bog myrtle, buckbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock |
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| buckbean | (noun) perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface | Synonyms: bog myrtle, bogbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock |
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| butterbean | (noun) small flat green bean similar to lima beans | Synonyms: butter bean, civet bean, sieva bean |
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| horsebean | (noun) large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States | Synonyms: Jerusalem thorn, Parkinsonia aculeata |
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| (noun) seed of the broad-bean plant | Synonyms: broad bean, fava bean |
| screwbean | (noun) shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods | Synonyms: Prosopis pubescens, screw bean, screwbean mesquite, tornillo |
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| soybean | (noun) the most highly proteinaceous vegetable known; the fruit of the soybean plant is used in a variety of foods and as fodder (especially as a replacement for animal protein) | Synonyms: soy, soya, soya bean |
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| (noun) erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia | Synonyms: Glycine max, soja, soja bean, soy, soya, soya bean, soybean plant |
| (noun) a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food | Synonyms: soy, soya bean |