Bean

Bean  (bn), Roy Self-styled "the Law West of the Pecos." 1825?-1903.

American frontiersman in Texas who in 1881 appointed himself justice of the peace and handed down judgments based on one law book and one six-shooter.

---

bean  (bn)

n.

1.

a. Any of various New World twining herbs of the genus Phaseolus in the pea family, having leaves with three leaflets, variously colored flowers, and edible pods and seeds.

b. A seed or pod of any of these plants.

2. Any of several related plants or their seeds or pods, such as the adzuki bean, broad bean, or soybean.

3. Any of various other plants or their seeds or fruits, especially those suggestive of beans, such as the coffee bean or the vanilla bean.

4. Slang A person's head.

5. beans Slang A small amount: I don't know beans about investing.

6. Chiefly British A fellow; a chap.

tr.v. beaned, bean·ing, beans Slang

To hit (another) on the head with a thrown object, especially a pitched baseball.

Idioms:

full of beans

1. Energetic; frisky: The children were too full of beans to sit still.

2. Badly mistaken: Don't believe him; he's full of beans.

spill the beans

To disclose a secret.

---

[Middle English ben, broad bean, from Old English ban; see bha-bh- in Indo-European roots.]

---

bean

Noun

1. the seed or pod of various climbing plants, eaten as a vegetable

2. any of various beanlike seeds, such as coffee

3. full of beans Informal full of energy and vitality

4. not have a bean Slang to be without money [Old English bēan]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	bean - any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food edible bean legume - the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils) goa bean - Old World tropical bean common bean - any of numerous beans eaten either fresh or dried soya, soya bean, soybean, soy - 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) bean plant, bean - any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods
	2.	bean - any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans coumara nut, tonka bean - fragrant black nutlike seeds of the tonka bean tree; used in perfumes and medicines and as a substitute for vanilla algarobilla, algarrobilla, algarroba - mesquite pod used in tanning and dyeing calabar bean, ordeal bean - dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine; source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft divi-divi - twisted seed pods of the divi-divi tree; source of tannin algarroba, algarroba bean, carob, carob bean, locust bean, locust pod - long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute soy, soya bean, soybean - a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food broad bean, fava bean, horsebean - seed of the broad-bean plant seed - a small hard fruit
	3.	bean - any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods bean plant bean, edible bean - any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food Fabaceae, family Fabaceae, family Leguminosae, legume family, Leguminosae, pea family - a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae legume, leguminous plant - an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae bush bean - a bean plant whose bushy growth needs no supports pole bean - a climbing bean plant that will climb a wall or tree or trellis shell bean, shell bean plant - a bean plant grown primarily for its edible seed rather than its pod
	4.	bean - informal terms for a human head bonce, noggin, noodle, dome, attic human head - the head of a human being
Verb	1.	bean - hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball hit - deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"

Translations

bean [biːn] n → judía, fríjol/frijol m (esp LAM);

runner/broad bean → habichuela/haba;

coffee bean → grano de café

---

bean [biːn] n → haricot m [of coffee]; grain m

---

bean [biːn] n → Bohne f;

runner bean → Stangenbohne f;

broad bean → dicke Bohne;

coffee bean → Kaffeebohne f

---

bean [biːn] n → fagiolo (= coffee bean); chicco

---

bean

n bean [biːn]

1 any one of several kinds of pod-bearing plant or its seed black beans; green beans; red beans. boon, boontjie لوبياء، فاصولياء бобена култура fazole, bob bønne die Bohne φασόλι judía, habichuela uba لوبیا papu haricot שְׁעוּעִית सेम grah bab kacang-kacangan, buncis baunagras/-planta fagiolo 豆 늙á pupa pupa kekacang boon bønne fasola feijão fasole боб fazuľa, bôb fižol mahunasto povrće böna เมล็ดถั่ว fasulye 豆 квасоля پھلیاں đậu 豆

2 the bean-like seed of other plants coffee beans. koffiebone حَبَّةُ( البُن) зърно zrn(k)o bønne die Bohne κόκκος, σπυρί grano uba هر دانۀ لوبیا مانند papu grain פּוֹל सेम की तरह के बीज वाले दूसरे पौधे zrno szem biji baun, fræ chicco, grano 豆に似た実 콩 비슷한 열매 pupelė pupiņa kacang boon bønne ziarenko grão bob зерно zrno zrno zrno böna เมล็ดพืชที่คล้ายถั่ว ...çekirdeği 豆形果實 біб پھلی دار بیج hạt cây 豆形果实