bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bēn
ipa: /biːn/
homophone: been (in some dialects)
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: beans
Etymology: From Middle English bene, from Old English bēan, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu, from Proto-Germanic *baunō (“bean”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Cognate with Scots bene, bein (“bean”), North Frisian buan (“bean”), Saterland Frisian Boone (“bean”), West Frisian bean, beanne (“bean”), Dutch boon (“bean”), German Bohne (“bean”), Luxembourgish Boun (“bean”), Danish bønne (“bean”), Faroese bøn, bøna (“bean”), Icelandic baun (“bean”), Norwegian Bokmål bønne (“bean”), Norwegian Nynorsk bauna, baune, bogna, bønne, Swedish böna (“bean”), Irish pónaire (“bean”), Manx poanrey (“bean”), Scottish Gaelic pònair (“bean”), Latin faba (“bean”), Russian боб (bob, “bean”), Serbo-Croatian бо̏б/bȍb. Doublet of fava.
Senses: examples: 2004, T. N. Shivenanda, B. R. V. Iyengar, Phosphorus Management in French Bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.), Ramdane Dris, S. Mohan Jain (editors), Production Practices and Quality Assessment of Food Crops, Volume 2: Plant Mineral Nutrition and Pesticide Management, page 79,
Beans are a large group of leguminous vegetables that serve as a main source of proteins in human diet. This group comprises several species and some of them are Adzuki bean (Vigna angularis); Broad bean (Vicia faba); Cluster bean (Cyamposis tetragonoloba); French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris); […] .
coordinate_terms: pea
glosses: Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
glosses: The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean, or garbanzo bean).
examples: text: Green beans, also called French beans, can be pickled.
glosses: The edible seedpod of such a plant.
glosses: The bean-like seed of certain other plants, such as a vanilla bean or (especially) a coffee bean.
glosses: An object resembling a pea or bean in shape, often made from plastic or styrofoam and used in large numbers as packing material or as stuffing for beanbags and similar items.
examples: text: Now, there was a perfectly sound forecast for you. Certainly a case of using the old bean. The surmise was perfectly logical.
ref: 1959, Maxwell Droke, You and the World to Come, page 173:
text: I saw her quiver and kept a wary eye on the ginger ale bottle. But even if she had raised it and brought it down on [my] bean, I couldn't have been more stunned than I was by the words that left her lips.
[...]
 Well, as I say, it was from his fertile bean that the idea sprang.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI and XV:
synonyms: noggin
glosses: The head or brain.
examples: text: For one, don't stage a full-frontal assault on her bean.
ref: 2010, Cynthia W. Gentry, Dana Fredst, What Women Really Want in Bed: The Surprising Secrets Women Wish Men Knew about Sex, Quiver, published 2010, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: The human clitoris.
examples: text: Sparky is a good bean, even if he is a carpet-bagging bean at that.
ref: 2000 April 9, Richard G Cheek, “Apologies, DimWit Dana”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet):
text: i dont want boid (whoever said that) he is mean. boid is a mean bean.
ref: 2002 March 21, Yena, "oh my bloody god boys!", microsoft.public.xbox, Usenet
text: "Good, because we like you. You're okay. You're a good bean." "I never thought I'd be friends with a cheerleader," I said.
ref: 2007, Alex Bradley, Hot Lunch, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: A person; especially, a baby.
glosses: A guinea coin or sovereign.
examples: text: I haven't got a bean.
glosses: Money.
raw_tags: in the negative
examples: text: The singerOne bean has values for both the name and age properties, so it passes through the init() method with absolutely no changes.
ref: 2017, Iuliana Cosmina, Rob Harrop, Chris Schaefer, Clarence Ho, Pro Spring 5, 5th edition, Apress, →ISBN, page 131:
qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Clipping of JavaBean.
examples: text: Once the bean kicked in I started wilding.
ref: 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN:
glosses: Any form of tablet, especially benzedrine (benny).
glosses: A toe bean.
Hyponyms: word: adsuki bean
word: aduki bean
word: adzuki bean
word: algaroba bean
word: algarroba bean
word: Anasazi bean
word: asparagus bean
word: azuki bean
word: baked beans
word: baked bean
word: baking beans
word: bay bean
word: beach bean
word: Bengal bean
word: Benghal bean
word: bitter bean
word: black bean
word: blackbean
word: black bean sauce
word: black-bean sauce
word: black-eyed bean
word: black turtle bean
word: blue beans
word: bog bean
word: bogbean
word: Bolita bean
word: bonavist bean
word: borlotti bean
word: boston bean
word: broad bean
word: broadbean
word: brown bean
word: buckbean
word: buck bean
word: buffalo bean
word: bush bean
word: butter bean
word: butterbean
word: cacao bean
word: Calabar bean
word: calico bean
word: calico beans
word: cannellini bean
word: carob bean
word: castor bean
word: castor-oil bean
word: ceci bean
word: chili beans
word: China bean
word: Chinese long bean
word: civet bean
word: cluster bean
word: cocoa bean
word: coffee bean
word: common bean
word: coral bean
word: corona bean
word: cow bean
word: cowboy beans
word: cranberry bean
word: djenkol bean
word: dragon tongue bean
word: Dutch case-knife bean
word: dwarf bean
word: edible bean
word: Egyptian bean
word: English bean
word: English runner bean
word: Entity Bean
word: European bean
word: faba bean
word: fava bean
word: fetish bean
word: field bean
word: flageolet bean
word: flick the bean
word: Florida bean
word: Florida velvet bean
word: French bean
word: french bean
word: French filet bean
word: fresh bean
word: full of beans
word: garbanzo bean
word: gemsbuck beans
word: giant stock bean
word: give someone beans
word: goa bean
word: great Northern bean
word: great northern bean
word: green bean
word: green bean galaxy
word: guar bean
word: guava bean
word: haricot bean
word: haricot vert bean
word: hog's bean
word: horse bean
word: horsebean
word: human bean
word: hyacinth bean
word: ice-cream bean
word: Ignatius' bean
word: Indian bean
word: Italian flat bean
word: jack bean
word: java bean
word: jellybean
word: jelly bean
word: jequirity bean
word: jering bean
word: jolly bean
word: jumby bean
word: jumping bean
word: Kentucky wonder bean
word: Kersting's bean
word: kidney bean
word: Leichhardt's bean
word: lima bean
word: Lima bean
word: locust bean
word: lupini bean
word: Lyon bean
word: Mackenzie bean
word: Madagascar bean
word: magotty bay bean
word: Manila bean
word: marama bean
word: marrow bean
word: mash bean
word: mat bean
word: matchbox bean
word: matpe bean
word: mescal bean
word: mescalbean
word: mesquite bean
word: Message-driven Bean
word: Mexican bean
word: Mexican jumping bean
word: Mexican yam bean
word: mini beans
word: Molucca bean
word: mongo bean
word: moong bean
word: morama bean
word: morning bean
word: moth bean
word: mung bean
word: mungo bean
word: navy bean
word: old bean
word: ordeal bean
word: pea bean
word: pearl haricot bean
word: pichurim bean
word: pink bean
word: pinto bean
word: poison bean
word: pole bean
word: Price's potato-bean
word: Pythagorean bean
word: Queensland bean
word: red bean
word: refried beans
word: refried bean
word: rice and beans
taxonomic: Vigna umbellata
word: rice bean
word: Romano bean
word: runner bean
word: sacred bean
word: sand bean
word: scarlet runner bean
word: screwbean
word: screw bean
word: sea bean
word: seabean
word: sea green bean
word: shell bean
word: sieva bean
word: smoking bean
word: snail bean
word: snap bean
word: snuffbox bean
word: soja bean
word: soup beans
word: soya bean
word: soybean
word: soy bean
word: Spanish bean
word: speckled butter bean
word: spill the beans
word: St Ignatius' bean
word: St Ignatius's bean
word: stink bean
word: stinky bean
word: string bean
word: stringless bean
word: St. Thomas bean
word: sugar bean
word: sword bean
word: tepary bean
word: tickbean
word: tick bean
word: tonca bean
word: tonga bean
word: tonka bean
word: tonqua bean
word: tonquin bean
word: turtle bean
word: twisted cluster bean
word: urd bean
word: vanilla bean
word: velvet bean
word: Walkman Bean
word: wax bean
word: waxbean
word: wax-pod bean
word: Welsh bean
word: white bean
word: white pea bean
word: wild bean
word: Windsor bean
word: winged bean
word: wolf bean
word: wonder bean
word: yam bean
word: Yankee bean
word: yardlong bean
word: yard-long bean
word: yellow bean
sense: software: JavaBeans
word: managed bean
Derived terms: African locust bean
a hill of beans
asparagus-bean
Banstead
BaseBean
bean aphid
bean aphis
bean bag
bean-bag
beanbag
bean ball
beanball
bean beetle
bean-belly
bean blight
beanbrain
beanbrawl
beanbreath
bean bruchid
bean-brush
beanburger
bean-butter
bean cake
beancake
bean-cake
bean caper
bean-caper
bean choke
bean chute
bean clam
bean-cod
bean-counter
bean counter
bean cowrie
bean-crake
bean curd
bean curve
bean dip
bean-dolphin
bean-eater
beaner
beanery
bean family
beanfeast
bean feast
bean-feast
bean-fed
beanfield
bean flicker
bean-flicker
bean flicking
beanflour
bean-fly
bean fly
bean-goose
bean goose
Beanhead
bean hole
beanhole
bean-hool
bean-hull
beanie
beanie baby
Beanie Baby
beanie key
bean iron ore
bean jar
bean-king
bean king
bean leafroller
beanless
bean-like
beanlike
bean machine
bean masher
beanmeal
bean metal
bean-mouse
bean mouth
bean of Molucca
bean of St Ignatius
bean oil
bean paste
bean pie
bean plant
beanplot
beanpole
bean-pole
bean pole
beanpot
bean pot
Beanpot
bean queen
bean rag
bean salad
beans bunny
Bean Scripting Framework
bean seed fly
bean-shaped plasma
bean-shatter
bean shoot
bean-shooter
bean shot
bean-shot copper
bean-shouter
bean slot
beans on toast
beanspilling
bean sprout
beanstalk
bean-stalk
bean stitch
bean-straw
bean thread noodles
bean threads
bean-to-bar
bean tostada
Bean Town
Beantown
bean-tree
bean tree
bean-trefoil
bean trefoil
bean-vine
bean wagon
beanwater
beanweed
bean weevil
bean-wood
beany
blackbean
black bean aphid
bobby bean
bogbean
boring as beans
broadbean
buck-bean
buckbean
bullets and beans
bush-bean
butterbean
campfire beans
castor-bean
castor bean tick
charro bean
chuckwagon beans
clean as a bean
cool beans
cowboy beans
desert bean
dilly bean
Enola bean
fine bean
flick one's bean
for beans
full of beans
gemsbok bean
get beans
Goa bean
goa bean vine
goober bean
gully bean
horsebean
hot bean
hot boiled beans
Ignatius bean
JavaBean
java-bean
jellybean
jugo bean
keen as a bean
keep it a bean
kewl beans
know beans about
know how many beans make five
le dollar bean
locust bean gum
long-bean
Malacca-bean
Malacca bean
Malacca-bean tree
Malacca bean tree
maloga bean
May-bean
MBean
Mexican bean beetle
mole bean
multiflora bean
NetBeans
nicker bean
not care beans
not have a bean
not know beans
not worth beans
peachy keen jelly bean
pole-bean
pork and bean
pork and beans
potato-bean
prairie-bean
red bean paste
refried bean
scarlet-bean
scarlet bean
screw-bean
seabean
session bean
silly bean
snake bean
snoutbean
snuff box sea bean
soup beans
soybean
spill the beans
stinking bean trefoil
St. Thomas' beangive someone beans
sweet bean sauce
tickbean
toe bean
tough beans
tundra bean goose
waxbean