In English usage, the word bean is also sometimes used to refer to the seeds or pods of plants that are not in the family leguminosae, but which bear a superficial resemblance to true beans — for example coffee beans, castor beans and cocoa beans ( which resemble bean seeds ), and vanilla beans, which superficially resemble bean pods.

In more recent times, the so-called " bush bean " has been developed which does not require support and has all its pods develop simultaneously ( as opposed to pole beans which develop gradually ).

On the other hand, the botanical sense of " fruit " includes many structures that are not commonly called " fruits ", such as bean pods, corn kernels, wheat grains, and tomatoes.

These trees have very little limb droppage, but drop large, dark brown bean pods during late summer.

Northern and southern catalpas are very similar in appearance, but the northern species has slightly larger leaves, flowers, and bean pods.

In Barbara Kingsolver's novel The Bean Trees, Turtle refers to wisteria vines as bean trees, because the pre-bloomed flower pods are shaped like beans.

Mature field bean pods

This family is unique in that all of the species in it set pods, such as bean, lentil, lupins and alfalfa.

To make the psychedelic snuff called yopo, the black beans from the bean pods of these trees are first toasted until the beans pop like popcorn breaking the bean's husk.

The flowers are dioecious, and the fruit is a hard-shelled bean in heavy, woody, thick-walled pods filled with sweet, thick, gooey pulp.

It has light green to white flowers in the spring which ripen in the fall to clusters of burs which contain pods of small bean like seeds.

The hyacinth bean grows as a vine, producing purple flowers and striking electric-purple coloured seed pods.

In Telangana, the bean pods are cut into small pieces and cooked as spicy curry in Pongal festival season, along with bajra bread ; it has been a very special delicacy for centuries.

A variety of the cowpea, it is grown primarily for its strikingly long ( 35-75 cm ) immature pods and has uses very similar to that of the green bean.

Green bean varieties have been bred especially for the fleshiness, flavor, or sweetness of their pods.

Three insects have been introduced to Australia for biological control ; the parkinsonia bean weevils, Penthobruchus germaini and Mimosestes ulkei, both have larvae that specifically eat the seeds from parkinsonia pods and are proving to be a useful management tool, and the parkinsonia leaf bug, Rhinacloa callicrates, which destroys photosynthetic tissues but has had little overall impact on the plant.

In Chile, A. colubrina produces flowers from September to December and bean pods from September to July.

To make the psychedelic snuff called Vilca ( sometimes called cebil ), the black beans from the bean pods of these trees are first toasted until the beans pop like popcorn breaking the bean's husk.

A cacao tree with cocoa bean fruit pods ( which are filled with cocoa beans inside of them ) in various stages of ripening

The hull of the mature bean is hard, water-resistant, and protects the cotyledon and hypocotyl ( or " germ ") from damage.

* Azuki bean ( adzuki beans ), mature seeds, raw: 7. 53 % of the protein is lysine.

In some groups ( e. g. grains of the family Poaceae ) the endosperm persists to the mature seed stage as a storage tissue, in which case the seeds are called " albuminous " or " endospermous ", and in others it is absorbed during embryo development ( e. g., most members of the family Fabaceae, including the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris ), in which case the seeds are called " exalbuminous " or " cotyledonous " and the function of storage tissue is performed by enlarged cotyledons (" seed leaves ").

Some mature endosperm tissues store fats ( e. g. castor bean, Ricinis communis ) and others ( including grains, such as wheat and corn ) store mainly starches.

Mung beans are commonly used in Korean cuisine, where they are called nokdu ( 绿豆, literally " green bean ").

The dwellers of the city are called Vitorianos or Gasteiztarras, while traditionally they are dubbed Babazorros ( Basque for ' bean eaters ').

These were chosen by chance, using the system described earlier, from which they were familiarly known as " councillors of the bean "; officially they were known as prytaneis (, meaning " chief " or " teacher ").

Dreaming of a bean is sometimes said to be a sign of impending conflict, though others said they caused bad dreams.

In a home meal, refried beans typically serve as the main food accompanied by smaller, more strongly flavored dishes, but they may also be served as a side dish accompanying a larger meal, or rolled in a tortilla to form a bean burrito.

Moka pots are similar to espresso machines in that they brew under pressure, produce coffee with an extraction ratio similar to that of a conventional espresso machine, and, depending on bean variety and grind selection, moka pots can create the same foam emulsion known as crema that conventional espresso machines can.

And they can be eaten in bean salad.

After boiling they take on a strong salty taste and become softer with the length of cooking, somewhat resembling a pea or bean, to which they are related.

6 ), the eponymous hero is elected King of festivities at the Twelfth Night celebrations held in Tom Shakeshaft's barn, by receiving the slice of plum cake containing the bean ; his companion Cissy obtains the pea and becomes queen, and they are seated together in a high corner to view the proceedings.

On his return, he tried to persuade the owners ( including Jerry Baldwin ) to offer traditional espresso beverages in addition to the whole bean coffee, leaf teas and spices they had long offered.

The principal restriction is that players may only be farming two or three types of bean at once, but they obtain beans of all different types randomly from the deck, and so must engage in trading with the other players to be successful.

The bean weevils or seed beetles are a subfamily ( Bruchinae ) of beetles, now placed in the family Chrysomelidae, though they have historically been treated as a separate family.

They are used to encapsulate many objects into a single object ( the bean ), so that they can be passed around as a single bean object instead of as multiple individual objects.

The stems of a species parasitic on the fava bean are gathered and eaten in the region of Puglia, Italy, where they are given the name spocchia.

Coffee can be roasted in the oven provided that they are put only one bean deep in a perforated baking tray.

They are a flavoring most popular in the cuisine of China, where they are most widely used for making black bean sauce

Moses then kills Garth, and as everyone discovers Kenny died smashing open the conch shell, Moses declares that they ( the Jews ) shall meet every year on that day to celebrate Kenny by making macaroni pictures and paper plate bean shakers decorated with glue and glitter.

The Chinese prepare a dish composed of meat or bean paste and rice, wrapped in bamboo leaves, tied with string and steamed, in lieu of food given to fishes so they would not dine on the poet Qu Yuan.

Nevertheless, the website claimed that GoogleGuy was neither a bean nor a pancake, but a numeral " zero " from the virtual googol of products they carried.

However, some sources claim that these effects are minor and that the major benefit of peaberry beans is that they have been carefully selected, which is essential for optimal quality, regardless of bean shape.

White beans carried an air of sophistication because they were first available in towns to people who could afford more than one type of bean and ham, as opposed to poorer rural people who often raised only brown beans.