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| bean |
any of various types of leguminous or bean-bearing plants. [1/5 definitions] |
| beanpole |
a stick or pole used to support bean vines. [1/2 definitions] |
| bean sprout |
a young, tender shoot, as of the soybean or mung bean, used as a garnish, in salads, and the like. |
| beanstalk |
the stem of a bean plant. |
| broad bean |
a plant of the pea family that bears flat seeds that are used as a vegetable or an animal feed; fava bean. |
| bush bean |
a low-growing variety of the green bean. |
| butter bean |
a variety of lima bean. |
| chickpea |
the pealike bean borne by this plant; garbanzo. [1/2 definitions] |
| chop suey |
a Chinese-American dish of bean sprouts, other vegetables, and small bits of meat, chicken, or fish cooked and poured over rice. |
| chow mein |
a Chinese-American dish of stewed bean sprouts, other vegetables, and bits of chicken, seafood, or meat, poured over fried noodles. |
| fava bean |
see "broad bean." |
| frijol |
any of numerous beans, esp. the kidney bean, used for food in the southwestern United States or Mexico. [1/2 definitions] |
| green bean |
a type of kidney bean characterized by its long thin green pod. [2 definitions] |
| haricot |
the plant that produces kidney beans, or the bean itself. [1/2 definitions] |
| kidney bean |
a common garden bean cultivated for its red, edible seed, or the kidney-shaped seed itself. |
| mitochondrion |
any of the very tiny rodlike, stringlike, or bean-shaped structures that occur in nearly all cells of plants and animals, and that process food for energy. |
| navy bean |
a small, nutritious, white kidney bean, usu. dried for long-term storage. |
| physostigmine |
a clear or pink crystalline substance obtained from the Calabar bean and used in various medicines, as for constricting the pupils in glaucoma. |
| pinto |
a mottled bean similar to the kidney bean; pinto bean. [1/3 definitions] |
| pinto bean |
a variety of kidney bean bearing pale, mottled seeds that is grown for food and animal fodder. |
| pod1 |
a long thin firm vessel containing seeds, esp. of a pea or bean plant. [1/4 definitions] |
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