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Definition bean

Etymology

From Middle English bene, from Old English b?an (“bean, pea, legume”), from Proto-Germanic *baun? (“bean”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ab?- (“bean”). Cognate with Scots bene, bein (“bean”), West Frisian bean (“bean”), Dutch boon (“bean”), German Bohne (“bean”), Danish bønne (“bean”), Icelandic baun (“bean”), Latin faba (“bean”), Russian ??? (bob, “bean”), Serbo-Croatian ????/b?b. Doublet of fava.

Noun

bean (plural beans)

1. Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
2. The large edible seed of such a plant.
3. (specifically) The edible seed of the broad bean.
4. The edible seedpod of such a plant.
5. (by extension) The bean-like seed of certain other plants, especially coffee; coffee in the general.
6. (by extension) 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.
7. (slang) The head or brain.
8. (Britain, slang, archaic) A guinea coin.
9. (Britain, slang, usually in the negative) Money.
10. (slang) The clitoris.
11. (software) Clipping of JavaBean.

Verb

bean (third-person singular simple present beans, present participle beaning, simple past and past participle beaned)

1. (chiefly baseball) To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head.

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