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Bean
BEAN, n. A name given to several kinds of pulse, or leguminous seeds, and the plants producing them. They belong to several genera, particularly Vicia, Phaseolus and Dolichos. The varieties most usually cultivated are, the horse bean, the mazagan, the kidney bean, the cranberry bean, the lima bean, the frost bean, etc. The stalk is erect or climbing, and the fruit generally roundish, oval or flat,and of various colors.
Malacca-beans. Anacardia, the fruit of a tree growing in Malabar, and other parts of the Indies. This fruit is of a shining black color, of the shape of a heart flattened, about an inch long, terminating at one end in an obtuse point, and at the other, adhering to a wrinkles stalk. In contains, within two shells, a kernel of a sweetish taste; and betwixt the shells is lodged a thick acrid juice.
bean appears in definitions for these words:
Bean Bean-fed Bean-fly Bean-goose Bog Fabaceous Haricot Haulm Hilum Horsebean Kidney-bean Legume Leguminous Lomentaceous Mazagan Mida Mum Phase Pod Pole Pulse Scarlet-bean String Succotash Swad Throat Tickbean Vegetable Vine
Bean Bean-fed Bean-fly Bean-goose Bog Fabaceous Haricot Haulm Hilum Horsebean Kidney-bean Legume Leguminous Lomentaceous Mazagan Mida Mum Phase Pod Pole Pulse Scarlet-bean String Succotash Swad Throat Tickbean Vegetable Vine
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