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bean

bean [noun]

a seed or a pod (=case containing seeds), that comes from a climbing plant and is cooked as food. There are very many types of beans

US

/biːn/

UK

/biːn/

لوبيا

مثال:

Do you want a can of beans for lunch?

برای ناهار کنسرو لوبیا می خواهی؟

a seed or a pod (=case containing seeds), that comes from a climbing plant and is cooked as food. There are very many types of beans

معادل فارسی:

لوبيا

مثال انگلیسی:

Do you want a can of beans for lunch?

برای ناهار کنسرو لوبیا می خواهی؟

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Oxford Essential Dictionary

bean

noun
a seed, or a seed container, that we use as food:
green beans
coffee beans

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

bean

I. bean¹ S2 /biːn/ BrE AmE noun [countable]
[Language: Old English]

1. a seed or a ↑pod (=case containing seeds), that comes from a climbing plant and is cooked as food. There are very many types of beans.:
baked beans
Soak the beans overnight.
kidney beans
green beans
2. a plant that produces beans
3. a seed used in making some types of food or drinks:
coffee beans
cocoa beans
4. be full of beans informal to be very eager and full of energy:
She’s full of beans this morning.
5. not have a bean British English informal to have no money at all
6. not know/care beans (about somebody/something) American English informal to not know anything or care at all about someone or something
⇨ spill the beans at spill¹(3), ⇨ not amount to a hill of beans at hill(5), ⇨ jelly bean

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

bean

bean [bean beans] noun, verb [biːn] [biːn]

noun
1. a seed, or pod containing seeds, of a climbing plant, eaten as a vegetable. There are several types of bean and the plants that they grow on are also called beans
• broad beans
• runner beans

• beans (= baked beans ) on toast

2. (usually in compounds) a seed from a coffee plant, or some other plants
• coffee/cocoa beans
see also jelly bean
more at a hill of beans at hill, not know beans about sth at know _v., spill the beans at spill _v.
Word Origin:
Old English bēan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch boon and German Bohne.
Example Bank:
• She grows her own broad beans.
• baked beans on toast

Idioms: full of life ▪ not have a bean

Word Origin:
Old English bēan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch boon and German Bohne.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

bean / bin / noun [ C ]

A1 a seed, or the pod containing seeds, of various climbing plants, eaten as a vegetable:
green beans
kidney beans
baked beans
Coffee beans are the bean-like seeds of the coffee tree.

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

bean

[bi͟ːn]
♦♦♦
beans
1) N-COUNT: usu pl, usu adj N Beans such as green beans, french beans, or broad beans are the seeds of a climbing plant or the long thin cases which contain those seeds.
2) N-COUNT: usu pl, usu n N Beans such as soya beans and kidney beans are the dried seeds of a bean plant.
3) N-COUNT: usu pl, usu n N Beans such as coffee beans or cocoa beans are the seeds of plants that are used to produce coffee, cocoa, and chocolate.
4) N-COUNT Beans are baked beans.
  ...sausage and beans.
5) N-SING If someone has not got a bean, they have no money at all. [BRIT, INFORMAL]
  It's quite incredible to think that he now hasn't got a bean...
  It doesn't cost a bean.
  Syn:
  penny
6) PHRASE: v-link PHR If someone is full of beans, they are very lively and have a lot of energy and enthusiasm.
  Jem was full of beans after a long sleep.
7) PHRASE: V inflects If you spill the beans, you tell someone something that people have been trying to keep secret.

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary:

¹bean /ˈbiːn/ noun, pl beans [count]
1 a : a seed that is eaten as a vegetable and that comes from any one of many different kinds of climbing plants
• We ate rice and beans for dinner.
b : a part of a plant that contains very young seeds and that is eaten as a vegetable - see also green bean, pole bean, snap bean, string bean, wax bean
c : a plant that produces beans
• We're growing tomatoes and beans in our garden this year.
2 : a seed that looks like a bean but that does not come from a climbing plant
• coffee beans
• cocoa beans
• a vanilla bean
- see also jelly bean, jumping bean
a hill of beans
full of beans informal
1 : full of energy and life
• We were young and full of beans.
• Although she's much older now, she's still full of beans.
2 US : not correct or truthful : full of nonsense
• If that's what he's been saying, then he's full of beans.
not know beans about US informal : to not know anything about (something)
• He doesn't know beans about computers. [=he knows nothing about computers]
spill the beans informal : to reveal secret information
• I tried to get him to tell me what he knew, but he refused to spill the beans.

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pea

pea [noun]

a very small round green vegetable that grows in a long narrow pod

US

/piː/

UK

/piː/

نخود، نخود فرنگی

مثال:

I use pea in soup.

من در سوپ از نخود فرنگی استفاده میکنم.

a very small round green vegetable that grows in a long narrow pod

معادل فارسی:

نخود، نخود فرنگی

مثال انگلیسی:

I use pea in soup.

من در سوپ از نخود فرنگی استفاده میکنم.

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Oxford Essential Dictionary

pea

noun
a very small round green vegetable. Peas grow in long, thin cases (called pods).

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

pea

pea /piː/ BrE AmE noun [countable]
[Date: 1600-1700; Origin: pease 'pea' (11-19 centuries) (mistaken as plural), from Latin pisa, plural of pisum, from Greek pison]
1. a round green seed that is cooked and eaten as a vegetable, or the plant on which these seeds grow:
roast chicken with peas and carrots
2. like two peas in a pod informal exactly the same in appearance, behaviour etc

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

pea

pea [pea peas] [piː] [piː] noun

a small round green seed, eaten as a vegetable. Several peas grow together inside a long thin pod on a climbing plant also called a pea

• frozen peas

• pea soup

see also chickpea, mushy peas, split pea, sweet pea

Word Origin:

mid 17th cent.: back-formation from pease (interpreted as plural).

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

pea / piː / noun [ C ]

B1 a round, green seed, several of which grow in a pod, eaten as a vegetable:

frozen/dried peas

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

pea

/pi:/
(peas)

Peas are round green seeds which grow in long thin cases and are eaten as a vegetable.

N-COUNT: usu pl

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary:

pea

pea /ˈpiː/ noun, pl peas [count] : a small, round, green seed that is eaten as a vegetable and that is formed in a seed case (called a pod) of a climbing plant also; : a plant that produces peas
• We're growing tomatoes and peas in our garden this year.
- see color picture
- see also black-eyed pea, chickpea, snap pea, snow pea, sugar snap pea, sweet pea
two peas in a pod
- used to say that two people or things are very similar to each other
• My brother and I are two peas in a pod. We both like the same things.