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bean
 
Noun bean has 4 senses
  1. bean, edible bean - any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae
    --1 is a kind of legume
    --1 is a part of bean, bean plant
    --1 has particulars: goa bean; common bean; soy, soybean
  2. bean - any of various seeds or fruits suggestive of beans
    --2 is a kind of     seed
    --2 has particulars:
     tonka bean, coumara nut; algarroba, algarrobilla, algarobilla; calabar bean, ordeal bean; divi-divi
  3. bean, bean plant - any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods
    --3 is a kind of legume, leguminous plant
    --3 is a member of
     Leguminosae, family Leguminosae, Fabaceae, family Fabaceae, legume family, pea family
     --3 has parts: bean, edible bean
    --3 has particulars:
     carob, carob bean, algarroba bean, algarroba, locust bean, locust pod; soy, soybean, soya bean; common bean, common bean plant, Phaseolus vulgaris; scarlet runner, scarlet runner bean, Dutch case-knife bean, runner bean, Phaseolus coccineus, Phaseolus multiflorus; shell bean, shell bean plant; broad bean, fava bean, horsebean
  4. attic, bean, bonce, noodle, noggin, dome - informal terms for a human head
    --4 is a kind of human head
    Derived form: verb bean1
Verb bean has 1 sense
  1. bean - hit on the head, esp. with a pitched baseball
    --1 is one way to     hit
    Derived forms: noun bean4, noun beaner1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
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