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dòu

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English meaning

  • bean noun The edible seed of various pod-bearing plants, or the pod itself, eaten as a vegetable.

Senses

豆 is used for these senses in English:

  • bean Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
  • common bean An herbaceous annual plant (Phaseolus vulgaris), grown for its edible bean.
  • green bean The immature pods of any kind of bean plant, eaten as a vegetable.
  • whiskered tern Chlidonias hybrida, a species of tern in the family Laridae.

bean — full definition

  1. noun The edible seed of various pod-bearing plants, or the pod itself, eaten as a vegetable.
  2. verb Informally, to hit someone with a thrown object, especially on the head.
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