| bean curd |
a soft, protein-rich food made from puréed soy beans; tofu. |
| bean sprout |
a young, tender shoot, as of the soybean or mung bean, used as a garnish, in salads, and the like. |
| 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. |
| fava bean |
see "broad bean." |
| green bean |
a type of kidney bean characterized by its long thin green pod. [2 definitions] |
| jumping bean |
the seed of certain Mexican plants of the spurge family, which contains the larva of a small moth whose movements cause the seed to roll and jump. |
| kidney bean |
a common garden bean cultivated for its red, edible seed, or the kidney-shaped seed itself. |
| lima bean |
any of several plants that bear broad pods containing large green or white edible seeds. [2 definitions] |
| navy bean |
a small, nutritious, white kidney bean, usu. dried for long-term storage. |
| pinto bean |
a variety of kidney bean bearing pale, mottled seeds that is grown for food and animal fodder. |
| pole bean |
any vinelike variety of bean that can twine upward around a pole, stake, trellis, or the like. (Cf. bush bean.) |
| screw bean |
a mesquite tree of the southwestern United States that bears spirally twisted pods. [2 definitions] |
| snap bean |
see "string bean." |
| string bean |
any of the long green pods, eaten when unripe, that are produced by various bean plants; snap bean. |
| tonka bean |
the fragrant seed of a tropical South American tree, used as a substitute for vanilla and in perfumes and snuff. [2 definitions] |
| vanilla bean |
the long, narrow seedpod of the orchid plant vanilla, used in making the food flavoring called vanilla. |
| wax bean |
a crop plant that is a variety of the kidney bean. [2 definitions] |