EDIBLE BEAN Synonyms

• fruit or seed of the cowpea plant

• sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure

• eaten fresh as shell beans or dried

• the seed of the chickpea plant

• large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried

• an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae

• the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case

• the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)

• round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food

• the fruit or seed of a lentil plant

• widely cultivated Eurasian annual herb grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas and also ground into meal and for its leafy stalks that are used as fodder

• any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers

• Egyptian goddess of the sky

• usually large hard-shelled seed

• a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt

• half the width of an em

• a whimsically eccentric person

• someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction

• one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

• gather nuts

• seed of a pea plant used for food

• the fruit or seed of a pea plant

• a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds

• (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)

• the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart

• the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health

• edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.)

• expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically

• produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses

• drive by or as if by pulsation

• a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food

• erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia

• the most highly proteinaceous vegetable known; the fruit of the soybean plant is used in a variety of foods and as fodder (especially as a replacement for animal protein)