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The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans. Bean aphis (Zoöl.), a plant louse (Aphis fabæ) which infests the bean plant. -- Bean fly (Zoöl.), a fly found on bean flowers. -- Bean goose (Zoöl.), a species of goose (Anser segetum). -- Bean weevil (Zoöl.), a small weevil tha…

A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum.

A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida).

A cultivated variety of the Asiatic gram, now introduced into the United States.

See Am.

Alternately answering.

nd intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean.

, to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sa) lying between those islands and Central America.

The bean or seed of the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi.)

Of or pertaining to the Chalybes, an ancient people of Pontus in Asia Minor, celebrated for working in iron and steel.

The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean.

See Saint Ignatius's bean, under Saint.

a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England. "A Jacobean table." C. L. Eastlake.

The seed of the wild licorice (Abrus precatorius) used by the people of India for beads in rosaries and necklaces, as a standard weight, etc.; -- called also jumble bead.

Of or pertaining to Judas Maccabeus or to the Maccabees; as, the Maccabean princes; Maccabean times.

Alternately responsive, as verses.

The pod or seed of the mesquite.

The seed of a Brazilian lauraceous tree (Nectandra Puchury) of a taste and smell between those of nutmeg and of sassafras, -- sometimes used medicinally. Called also sassafras nut.

Consisting of, or resembling, lead. J. Ellis.

Same as Sabian.