bean

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball

   The expert pitcher beaned the rookie with a fast pitch.

2. 2
   noun

   Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.

   2004, T. N. Shivenanda, B. R. V. Iyengar, Phosphorus Management in French Bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.), Ramdane Dris, S. Mohan Jain (editors), Production Practices and Quality Assessment of Food Crops, Volume 2: Plant Mineral Nutrition and Pesticide Management, page 79, Beans are a large group of leguminous vegetables that serve as a main source of proteins in human diet. This group comprises several species and some of them are Adzuki bean (Vigna angularis); Broad bean (Vicia faba); Cluster bean (Cyamposis tetragonoloba); French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris); […] .

3. 3
   noun

   The edible seedpod of such a plant.

   Green beans, also called French beans, can be pickled.

4. 4
   noun

   The head or brain.

   Now, there was a perfectly sound forecast for you. Certainly a case of using the old bean. The surmise was perfectly logical.

5. 5
   noun

   The human clitoris.

   For one, don't stage a full-frontal assault on her bean.

6. 6
   noun

   A person; especially, a baby.

   Sparky is a good bean, even if he is a carpet-bagging bean at that.

7. 7
   noun

   Money.

   I haven't got a bean.

8. 8
   noun

   Clipping of JavaBean.

   The singerOne bean has values for both the name and age properties, so it passes through the init() method with absolutely no changes.

Etymology

From Middle English bene, from Old English bēan, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu, from Proto-Germanic *baunō (“bean”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Cognate with Scots bene, bein (“bean”), North Frisian buan (“bean”), Saterland Frisian Boone (“bean”), West Frisian bean, beanne (“bean”), Dutch boon (“bean”), German Bohne (“bean”), Luxembourgish Boun (“bean”), Danish bønne (“bean”), Faroese bøn, bøna (“bean”), Icelandic baun (“bean”), Norwegian Bokmål bønne (“bean”), Norwegian Nynorsk bauna, baune, bogna, bønne, Swedish böna (“bean”), Irish pónaire (“bean”), Manx poanrey (“bean”), S…