Bean is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of Fabaceae (formerly Leguminosae) used for food or feed. Bean - Name. Bean originally meant the seed of the broad bean, but was later broadened to include members of the genus Phaseolus such as the common bean or haricot and the runner bean and the related genus Vigna. The term is now applied in a general way to many other related plants such as soybeans, peas, lentils, vetches and lupins. Some raw beans, for example ...

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Many well-known bean varieties belong to this species, and none of the lists below is in any way exhaustive. Both bush and running (pole) varieties exist. The colors and shape of pods and seeds vary tremendously. Common bean - Snap or String beans. Stephen Facciola's Cornucopia lists 130 varieties of Snap beans. Varieties specialized for use as green beans, selected for the succulence and flavor of their pods, are the ones usually grown in the home vegetable garden, and a myriad of varieties exist. ...

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Baked beans is a recipe consisting of beans baked (or stewed) in a sauce. Traditional cuisines of many regions claim such recipes as typical specialities, for example: Boston baked beans Jersey bean crock Guernsey bean jar Cassoulet Feijoada Baked beans (fèves au lard) in Quebec - see Cuisine of Quebec British cuisine claims beans on toast as a teatime favourite, and baked beans may form part of a Full English breakfast Bake ...

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Beans bags, often simply small bags literally filled with dried beans, are used in a number of children's games involving throwing and catching or throwing at targets. The fad-toy Beanie Babies are in fact bean bags. ...

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The common bean is a highly variable species. Bush varieties form erect bushes 20-60 cm tall, while pole or running varieties form vines 2-3 m long. All varieties bear alternate, green or purple leaves, divided into three oval, smooth-edged leaflets, each 6-15 cm long and 3-11 cm wide. The white, pink, or purple flowers are about 1 cm long, and give way to pods 8-20 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, green, yellow, black or purple in color, each containing 4-6 beans. The beans are smooth, plump, kidney-shaped, upto 1.5 cm long, range widely in color, a ...

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A bean bag is a bag containing dried beans or PVC pellets, with various applications. Bean bag - Games. Footbag (also hacky sack) is a type of ball-shaped bean bag that is used to play various games. Freestyle hackysack involves performing tricks while keeping the bean bag airborne for an extended period of time. Circle kick (also hacking circle) requires several players to test their skills against one another and attempt to get a hack, ...

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Common bean - Toxicity. Before they are eaten, the raw bean seeds should be boiled for at least ten minutes to degrade a toxic compound - the lectin phytohaemagglutinin - found in the bean which would otherwise cause severe gastric upset. This compound is present in many varieties (and in some other species of bean), but is especially concentrated in red kidney beans. Although in the case of dry beans the ten minutes required to degrade the toxin is much shorter than the hours required to fully cook the beans the ...

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Urd, urd bean, urad, black gram, black lentil or white lentil (Vigna mungo) is a bean grown in southern Asia. It is largely used to make dal from the whole or split, dehusked seeds. It, along with mung bean was placed in Phaseolus but has been transferred to Vigna. It was at one point considered to belong to the same species as mung bean. Black gram originated in India where it has been in cultivation from ancient times and is one of the most highly prized pulses of India. It has also been introduced to ot ...

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The azuki bean (also spelled adzuki) is an annual vine widely grown throughout eastern Asia and the Himalaya for its small (approximately 5 mm) bean. The cultivars most familiar in northeast Asia have a uniform red color, but white, black, gray and variously mottled varieties are also known. Genetic evidence indicates that the azuki bean was first domesticated in the Himalaya. It was cultivated in China and Korea before 1000 BC. It was later taken to Japan, where it is now ...

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The yardlong bean is also known as the long-podded cowpea, asparagus bean, snake bean, or Chinese long bean. It is known as dau gok in Cantonese, thua fak yao in Thai and kacang panjang in Malay. Despite the name, the pods are actually only about half a yard long. This plant is of a different genus and is only distantly related to beans. It is a vigorous climbing annual vine. A variety of the cowpea family, it is grown primarily for its strikingly long (35-75 cm) immature pods and has uses very similar to t ...

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A film version directed by Mel Smith, Bean (also known as Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie) was produced in 1997, but this broke from the show's tradition by using a subplot with more developed characters. Instead of being the sole centre of attraction, Mr. Bean here played second fiddle to the travails of a typical suburban Californian family (after having been sent to the USA by his employers, who wanted a break from Mr. Bean constantly messing up their lives). Many fans of the original series were quite disapp ...

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The Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus), also known as the Goa bean, is a tropical legume plant native to Papua New Guinea. It grows abundantly in hot, humid equatorial countries, from the Philippines and Indonesia to India, Burma and Sri Lanka. It does well in humid tropics with high rainfall. The winged bean plant grows as a vine with climbing stems and leaves, 3-4 m in height. It is an herbaceous perennial, but can be grown as an annual. It is generally taller and more massive than the Common bean. The be ...

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The Coral bean (Erythrina herbacea) also known as the Cherokee bean, Red cardinal or Cardinal spear, is a flowering tree found throughout the south-eastern United States and north-eastern Mexico; it has also been reported from parts of Central America and, as an introduced species, from Pakistan. The coral bean grows as a low shrub or small tree, reaching around 5 metres in height in areas that do not kill it back by freezing. Its yellowish-green leaves are around 20 cm long and are divided into 8 cm leaflets, shaped lik ...

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The bean machine, also known as the quincunx or Galton box, is a device invented by Sir Francis Galton to demonstrate the law of error and the normal distribution. The machine consists of a vertical board with interleaved rows of pins. Balls are dropped from the top, and bounce randomly left and right as they hit the pins. Eventually, they are collected into one-ball-wide bins at the bottom. The height of ...

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In Celtic folklore, The Bean Nighe, the "Washer at the Fords", is the Scottish version of the Irish Bean Sidhe (Banshee). She wanders near deserted streams where she washes the blood from the grave-clothes of those who are about to die. It is said that Bean Nighe are the spirits of women who died giving birth and are doomed to do this work until the day their lives would have normally ended. A Bean Nighe is thought to have one nostril, one big protruding tooth, webbed feet and long hanging breasts. A mortal who is bold enough to sneak up to her while she is washing and suck her breast can claim to be her foster ...

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The Bean Goose (Anser fabalis) is a medium-sized to large goose breeding in northern Europe and Asia. It is migratory and winters further south in Europe and Asia. The bill is black at the base and tip, with an orange band across the middle; the legs and feet are also bright orange. The upper wing-coverts are dark brown, as in the White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) and the Lesser White-fronted Goose (A. erythropus), but differing from thes ...

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Coffea arabica - Arabica Coffee Coffea benghalensis - Bengal coffee Coffea canephora - Robusta coffee Coffea congensis - Congo coffee Coffea excelsa - Liberian coffee Coffea gallienii - caffeine free Coffea bonnieri - caffeine free Coffea mogeneti - caffeine free Coffea liberica - Liberian coffee Coffea stenophylla - Sierra Leonian coffee The coffee plant is a shrub or small tree classified in the ge ...

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Alexander "Sawney" Bean (or Beane), Sawny is Scots for Sandy - was the legendary patron head of a cannibalistic family in Scotland in the 15th century. It is claimed that he, his wife, and their 46 children and grandchildren killed and fed on over a thousand people before they were captured and brutally executed. The story appears in the Newgate Calendars, a catalogue of crimes and criminals who passed through the notorious Newgate Prison in London. Although some historians believe that Sawney Bean never ex ...

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