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Definition of Bean plant
1. Noun. Any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods.
Terms within: Bean, Edible Bean
Group relationships: Fabaceae, Family Fabaceae, Family Leguminosae, Legume Family, Leguminosae, Pea Family
Generic synonyms: Legume, Leguminous Plant
Specialized synonyms: Bush Bean, Pole Bean, Shell Bean, Shell Bean Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bean Plant
Literary usage of Bean plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"On the view that they were the seeds of the bean plant, and were intended for
food or for planting or sowing, the Department, on March 28, 1884 (30 Int. Rev ..."
2. A Course of Elementary Instruction in Practical Biology by Thomas Henry Huxley, Henry Newell Martin, George Bond Howes, Dukinfield Henry Scott (1902)
"THE BEAN-PLANT (Vicia Faba). IN this, which is selected as a convenient example
of a Flowering Plant, the same parts are to be distinguished as in the Fern; ..."
3. The "Quincy Methods" Illustrated: Pen Photographs from the Quincy Schools by Lelia Ellen Patridge (1885)
"What is the difference between a bean and a bean plant? Willie. ... "A bean is
what you have at first, and a bean plant is what grows out of a bean. ..."
4. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"But the weights of the carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur,
and other elementary bodies contained in the bean plant, and in the seeds ..."
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