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BEAN PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bean plant mean? 

BEAN PLANT (noun)
  The noun BEAN PLANT has 1 sense:

1. any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and podsplay

  Familiarity information: BEAN PLANT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BEAN PLANT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bean; bean plant

Hypernyms ("bean plant" is a kind of...):

legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

Meronyms (parts of "bean plant"):

bean; edible bean (any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bean plant"):

bush bean (a bean plant whose bushy growth needs no supports)

pole bean (a climbing bean plant that will climb a wall or tree or trellis)

shell bean; shell bean plant (a bean plant grown primarily for its edible seed rather than its pod)

Holonyms ("bean plant" is a member of...):

Fabaceae; family Fabaceae; family Leguminosae; legume family; Leguminosae; pea family (a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae)


 Context examples 


Like other Rhizobia, the phazolicin-producing microbe forms nodules on bean plant roots and provides the plants with nitrogen.

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