bean
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (4)beans
- any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for foodSynonyms: edible beanType of legumeKinds goa bean, soy, mung bean, common beanPart of bean plant
- any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beansType of seedKinds mung, tonka bean, divi-divi, carob, broad bean, algarroba, calabar bean, soy
- any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and podsSynonyms: bean plantType of legume, leguminous plantKinds bush bean, shell bean, pole beanParts edible beanMember of Leguminosae, family Leguminosae
- informal terms for a human headSynonyms: atticboncenoodlenoggindomeType of human head
Verb (1)beans
- hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseballMore general hit
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Translations
Noun seed of a Fabaceae plant
- Spanish
- judía
- French
- haricot
- German
- Bohne
- Italian
- fagiolo
- Portuguese
- feijão
- Turkish
- fasulye
- Russian
- боб bob
- Arabic
- فَاصُولْيَاء fāṣūlyāʔ
- Chinese
- 豆子 dòuzi
- Japanese
- 豆 mame
35 more languages
- Dutch
- boon
- Polish
- fasola
- Swedish
- böna
- Greek
- φασόλι fasóli
- Korean
- 콩 kong
- Indonesian
- kacang
- Vietnamese
- đậu
- Hungarian
- bab
- Portuguese (PT)
- feijão
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 豆子 dòuzi
- Albanian
- fasule
- Breton
- favenn
- Catalan
- fesol
- Czech
- fazole
- Danish
- bønne
- Esperanto
- fabo
- Estonian
- uba
- Finnish
- papu
- Georgian
- ლობიო lobio
- Hebrew
- שְׁעוּעִית sh'u'ít
- Icelandic
- baun
- Kurdish
- fasûlî
- Latvian
- pupa
- Lithuanian
- pupelė
- Malagasy
- tsaramaso
- Norwegian
- bønne
- Romanian
- fasole
- Scottish Gaelic
- pònair
- Serbo-Croatian
- grah
- Slovak
- fazuľa
- Slovenian
- fižol
- Swahili
- haragwe
- Walloon
- feve
- Welsh
- ffeuen
- Yiddish
- באָב bob
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. bene, AS. beán; akin to D. boon, G. bohne, OHG. pōna, Icel. baun, Dan. bönne, Sw. böna, and perh. to Russ. bob, L. faba.
1. Botany A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.
☞ The origin and classification of many kinds are still doubtful. Among true beans are: the black-eyed bean and China bean, included in Dolichos Sinensis; black Egyptian bean or hyacinth bean, Dolichos Lablab; the common haricot beans, kidney beans, string beans, and pole beans, all included in Phaseolus vulgaris; the lower bush bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, variety nanus; Lima bean, Phaseolus lunatus; Spanish bean and scarlet runner, Phaseolus multiflorus; Windsor bean, the common bean of England, Faba vulgaris.
As an article of food beans are classed with vegetables.
2. The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans.
Bean aphis Zoology, a plant louse (Aphis fabæ) which infests the bean plant. — Bean fly Zoology, a fly found on bean flowers. — Bean goose Zoology, a species of goose (Anser segetum). — Bean weevil Zoology, a small weevil that in the larval state destroys beans. The American species is Bruchus fabæ. — Florida bean Botany, the seed of Mucuna urens, a West Indian plant. The seeds are washed up on the Florida shore, and are often polished and made into ornaments. — Ignatius bean, or St. Ignatius's bean Botany, a species of Strychnos. — Navy bean, the common dried white bean of commerce; probably so called because an important article of food in the navy. — Pea bean, a very small and highly esteemed variety of the edible white bean; — so called from its size. — Sacred bean. See under Sacred. — Screw bean. See under Screw. — Sea bean. (a) Same as Florida bean. (b) A red bean of unknown species used for ornament. — Tonquin bean, or Tonka bean, the fragrant seed of Dipteryx odorata, a leguminous tree. — Vanilla bean. See under Vanilla.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<programming> A component architecture for the Java programming language, developed initially by Sun, but now available from several other vendors. JavaBeans components are called "beans".
JavaBeans allows developers to create reusable software components that can then be assembled together using visual application builder tools including Sybase's PowerJ, Borland's JBuilder, IBM's Visual Age for Java, SunSoft's Java Workshop and Symantec's Visual Cafe.
JavaBeans support Introspection (a builder tool can analyze how a Bean works), Customisation (developers can customise the appearance and behaviour of a Bean), Events (Beans can communicate), Properties (developers can customise and program with Beans(?)) and Persistence (customised Beans can be stored and reused).
(http://javasoft.com/beans/).
(1997-11-20)