Definition of Bean

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Definition of Bean

Bean

A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.

The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans.

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Bean Quotations

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
E. B. White

I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
Rowan Atkinson

When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
Rowan Atkinson

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.
Rowan Atkinson

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
Paracelsus

You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.
Colin Quinn

I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.
Wentworth Miller

For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.
David F. Houston

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.
Pierce Brosnan

And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
Laetitia Casta

Bean Translations

bean in Dutch is tuinboon, boon, veldboon
bean in German is Bohne
bean in Italian is fava
bean in Spanish is frejol, haba

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