bean

Meanings

Noun

• Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
• The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean or garbanzo bean).
• The edible seedpod of such a plant.
• The bean-like seed of certain other plants, such a a vanilla bean or (especially) a coffee bean.
• 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.
• The head or brain.
• The clitoris.
• A person.
• A guinea coin.
• Money.
• Short form of JavaBean

Verb

• To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• adsuki bean
• aduki bean
• adzuki bean
• algaroba bean
• algarroba bean
• Anasazi bean
• asparagus bean
• azuki bean
• baked beans
• baking beans
• bay bean
• beach bean
• Bengal bean
• Benghal bean
• en
• black turtle bean
• black-eyed bean
• blue beans
• bog bean
• bogbean
• borlotti bean
• broad bean
• broadbean
• buck bean
• buckbean
• bush bean
• butter bean
• butterbean
• cacao bean
• Calabar bean
• calico bean
• cannellini bean
• carob bean
• castor bean
• castor-oil bean
• ceci bean
• chili beans
• China bean
• Chinese long bean
• civet bean
• cluster bean
• cocoa bean
• coffee bean
• common bean
• coral bean
• corona bean
• cow bean
• cowboy beans
• cranberry bean
• djenkol bean
• dragon tongue bean
• Dutch case-knife bean
• dwarf bean
• edible bean
• Egyptian bean
• English bean
• English runner bean
• Entity Bean
• European bean
• faba bean
• fava bean
• field bean
• flageolet bean
• flick the bean
• Florida bean
• Florida velvet bean
• French bean
• french bean
• French filet bean
• fresh bean
• full of beans
• garbanzo bean
• gemsbuck beans
• giant stock bean
• give someone beans
• goa bean
• great Northern bean
• green bean
• guar bean
• guava bean
• haricot bean
• haricot vert bean
• hog's bean
• horse bean
• horsebean
• hyacinth bean
• ice-cream bean
• Ignatius' bean
• Indian bean
• Italian flat bean
• jack bean
• java bean
• jelly bean
• jellybean
• jequirity bean
• jering bean
• jolly bean
• jumby bean
• jumping bean
• Kentucky wonder bean
• Kersting's bean
• kidney bean
• Leichhardt's bean
• lima bean
• locust bean
• lupini bean
• Lyon bean
• Mackenzie bean
• Madagascar bean
• Manila bean
• marama bean
• marrow bean
• mash bean
• mat bean
• mescal bean
• mescalbean
• mesquite bean
• Message-driven Bean
• Mexican bean
• Mexican jumping bean
• Mexican yam bean
• mini beans
• Molucca bean
• moong bean
• morama bean
• moth bean
• mung bean
• mungo bean
• navy bean
• old bean
• ordeal bean
• pea bean
• pichurim bean
• pink bean
• pinto bean
• poison bean
• pole bean
• Price's potato-bean
• Pythagorean bean
• Queensland bean
• red bean
• refried beans
• rice and beans
• mul
• Romano bean
• runner bean
• sacred bean
• sand bean
• scarlet runner bean
• screw bean
• screwbean
• sea bean
• sea green bean
• seabean
• shell bean
• sieva bean
• smoking bean
• snail bean
• snap bean
• snuffbox bean
• soja bean
• soup beans
• soy bean
• soya bean
• soybean
• Spanish bean
• speckled butter bean
• spill the beans
• St Ignatius' bean
• St Ignatius's bean
• St. Thomas bean
• string bean
• stringless bean
• sugar bean
• sword bean
• tepary bean
• tick bean
• tickbean
• tonca bean
• tonga bean
• tonka bean
• tonqua bean
• tonquin bean
• turtle bean
• urd bean
• vanilla bean
• velvet bean
• Walkman Bean
• wax bean
• waxbean
• wax-pod bean
• Welsh bean
• white bean
• wild bean
• Windsor bean
• winged bean
• wolf bean
• wonder bean
• yam bean
• Yankee bean
• yardlong bean
• yard-long bean
• yellow bean
• backing bean
• BaseBean
• JavaBean
• managed bean
• MBean
• Session Bean

Origin

• From Middle English bene, from Old English bēan, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu, from Proto-Germanic *baunō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ-. Cognate with Scots bene, bein, West Frisian bean, Dutch boon, German Bohne, Danish bønne, Icelandic baun, Latin faba, Russian боб, Serbo-Croatian бо̏б/bȍb. fava.