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Bean

noun
1.
Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food.  Synonym: edible bean.
2.
Any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans.
3.
Any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods.  Synonym: bean plant.
4.
Informal terms for a human head.  Synonyms: attic, bonce, dome, noggin, noodle.
verb
1.
Hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball.



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"Bean" Quotes from Famous Books



... know a domestic article has a world of prejudice to overcome at first. I shall watch the Ceylon tea question with interest, and hope that at some not distant day the production of tea leaf may rival that of the coffee bean. ...
— Round the World • Andrew Carnegie
... that the population of China will always be mainly agricultural. Tea, silk, raw cotton, grain, the soya bean, etc., are crops in which China excels. In production of raw cotton, China is the third country in the world, India being the first and the United States the second. There is, of course, room for great progress in agriculture, but industry is vital if China is to preserve ...
— The Problem of China • Bertrand Russell
... brave lad, forgetting his own sad plight on seeing his unhappy comrade's alarm and grief. "Cheer up, Master Bob, like a good sort! We bean't lost yet, ...
— Bob Strong's Holidays - Adrift in the Channel • John Conroy Hutcheson
... 1, 1841.—The Fifth Bengal and Thirty-third Queen's passed through this morning on their way to the Front. Had tiffin with the Bengalese. Latest news from home that two attempts had been made on the Queen's life by semi-maniacs named Francis and Bean. ...
— The Mystery of Cloomber • Arthur Conan Doyle
... several excellent scientific works dealing in a detailed manner with the cacao bean and its products from the various view points of the technician, there is no comprehensive modern work written for the general reader. Until that appears, I offer this little book, which attempts to cover lightly ...
— Cocoa and Chocolate - Their History from Plantation to Consumer • Arthur W. Knapp


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