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A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean.
The bean or seed of the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi.)
See Saint Ignatius's bean, under Saint.
Same as Florida bean.
See Tonka bean.
The seed of a leguminous tree (Dipteryx odorata), native of Guiana. It has a peculiarly agreeable smell, and is employed in the scenting of snuff. Called also tonquin bean.
The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean.
See Tonka bean.
The buck bean.
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A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.
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The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans.
v. t.
To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
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A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.
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Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
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A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.
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A plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for market or the table.
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The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.
v. t.
To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending.
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A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiaceae, as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean (Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. Called also strychnia, and formerly strychnina.
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A bean-shaped coin of Siam, worth about sixty cents; also, a weight equal to 236 grains troy.
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