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