bean
- IPA[biːn]
英式
- an edible seed, typically kidney-shaped, growing in long pods on certain leguminous plants;the hard seed of coffee, cocoa, and certain other plants.
- hit (someone) on the head
noun: bean, plural noun: beans
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名詞
- 1. an edible seed, typically kidney-shaped, growing in long pods on certain leguminous plants a tin of beans beans on toast
- ▪ the hard seed of coffee, cocoa, and certain other plants.
- 2. a leguminous plant that bears beans in pods.
- 3. informal a very small amount or nothing at all of something (used emphatically) there is not a single bean of substance in the report I didn't know beans about being a step-parent
- ▪ British informal any money at all he didn't have a bean
- 4. informal, dated a person's head, especially when regarded as a source of common sense this morning the old bean seems to be functioning in a slow way
動詞
- 1. North American informal hit (someone) on the head she picked up a rock and beaned him on the forehead
- a small black-colored variety of soybean, used in Asian cooking: black bean sauce
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- a small black-coloured variety of soy bean, used in Asian cooking: black bean sauce
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- an edible bean of a variety with small white seeds, used especially to make baked beans; a ...
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- a large flat edible green bean that is typically eaten without the pod.
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- an edible flat whitish bean.
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- an edible bean, or its edible pod, used especially as fodder in tropical countries.
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- the seed of the castor oil plant, which contains a number of poisonous compounds, especially ...
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- a plant of the pea family which produces poisonous shiny scarlet beans with a black eye, ...
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美式
- an edible seed, typically kidney-shaped, growing in long pods on certain leguminous plants: beans on toast a bean casserole
- hit (someone) on the head: Boone was nearly beaned by that wild pitch
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