Today the yearly import into the United States of locust bean gum is more than 15 million pounds ; ;

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.

This aspect of bean digestion is the basis for the children's rhyme " Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit ".

The world leader in production of dry bean is India, followed by Brazil and Myanmar.

The banshee ( ), from the Irish bean sí (" woman of the sídhe " or " woman of the fairy mounds ") is a feminine spirit in Irish mythology, usually seen as an omen of death and a messenger from the Otherworld.

In Scottish mythology the creature is called the bean sìth or bean-nighe and is seen washing the blood stained clothes or armour of those who are about to die.

In some parts of Leinster, she is referred to as the bean chaointe ( keening woman ) whose wail can be so piercing that it shatters glass.

Chocolate is created from the cocoa bean.

A shotgun usually retains its ancestor's smooth bore, and while originally designed to fire a packet of relatively small shot pellets, is also capable of firing larger slugs, or specialty ( often " less lethal ") rounds such as bean bags, tear gas or breaching rounds.

Some development experts argue that government protection of corn, bean, and rice production by small farmers is a futile effort in the long-term goal of poverty reduction.

A popular snack, bindaetteok ( mung bean pancake ) is made with ground mung beans and fresh mung bean sprouts.

Angelo Pellegrini, however, argued that the base of minestrone is bean broth, and that Roman beans ( also called Borlotti beans ) " are the beans to use for genuine minestrone ".

Adequate protein is available from grains, nuts, seeds, beans, and bean products.

** Ricin is a plant toxin found in the castor bean plant

Broad bean chili paste () is also a staple seasoning in Szechuan cuisine.

A slingshot, shanghai, flip, bean shooter, Wrist-Rocket or catapult ( primarily British English ) is a small hand-powered projectile weapon.

Her counterpart in Scottish mythology is the bean sìth ( sometimes spelled bean-sìdh ).

Other varieties of aos sí and daoine sìth include the Scottish bean nighe: the washerwoman who is seen washing the bloody clothing or armour of the person who is doomed to die ; the leanan sídhe: the " fairy lover "; the Cat Sìth: a fairy cat ; and the Cù Sìth: fairy dog.

Link's hat is also referenced in the book as a possible piece of equipment for the main character, Remy, who rejects it on the grounds that it would make him look kind of like " a big green bean.

The dough is commonly filled with ground meat or sweet bean pastes.

Mung bean sprouts, called sukju namul, are often served as a side dish, blanched and sautéed with sesame oil, garlic, and salt.

Other vegetables which are often eaten in Thailand are thua fak yao ( yardlong beans ), thua ngok ( bean sprouts ), no mai ( bamboo shoots ), tomatoes, cucumbers, phak tam leung ( Coccinia grandis ), kha na ( Chinese kale ), phak kwangtung ( choy sum ), cha om ( tender Acacia pennata leaves ), sweet potatoes ( used more as a vegetable ), a few types of squash, phakatin ( Leucaena leucocephala ), sataw ( Parkia speciosa ), tua phū ( Winged beans ) and kapōt corn.

It is often adorned with marinated bamboo shoots or menma, green onions, kamaboko ( fish cakes ), nori ( seaweed ), boiled eggs, bean sprouts and / or black pepper ; occasionally the soup will also contain chili oil or Chinese spices, and some shops serve sliced beef instead of the usual chāshū.

Cocoa bean ( also cacao bean, often simply cocoa and cacao ; Mayan: kakaw ; Nahuatl: cacahuatl.

Chop suey () is a Chinese dish consisting of meat ( often chicken, fish, beef, prawns, or pork ) and eggs, cooked quickly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage, and celery and bound in a starch-thickened sauce.

It is often eaten with pickled bean sprouts and chives, and white rice.

They are often filled with a sweet red bean paste or sesame seeds.

* Ambered, or " Oriental ": A large fragrance class featuring the sweet slightly animalic scents of ambergris or labdanum, often combined with vanilla, tonka bean, flowers and woods.

These often contain notes like vanilla, tonka bean and coumarin, as well as synthetic components designed to resemble food flavors.

It is served in a bowl with sweet azuki bean paste or anko ( the an part of anmitsu ), boiled peas, often gyūhi and a variety of fruits such as peach slices, mikan, pieces of pineapples, and cherries.

The Taurus displayed a rounder shape than its contemporaries, often likened to a ' jelly bean ' or ' flying potato ', inspired by the design of the Audi 5000 and Ford's own Tempo.

Shotguns dedicated to being used for bean bag rounds are often visibly modified with either yellow or green markings, or bright orange stocks and stops, to reduce the possibility that a user might inadvertently load lethal munitions into the weapon.

Staple foods of Indian cuisine include pearl millet ( bajra ), rice, whole-wheat flour ( atta ), and a variety of lentils, especially masoor ( most often red lentils ), toor ( pigeon pea ), urad ( black gram ), and moong ( mung bean ).

The generic name Phaseolus was introduced by Linnaeus in 1753, borrowed from the Latin phaseolus a combination of phasēlus and the diminutive suffix-olus, in turn borrowed from Greek φάσηλος ' cowpea ' ( often incorrectly glossed as ' kidney bean ', a New World crop ), whose ultimate origin is unknown.

As the resultant commodification of work advances, no skilled profession, even medicine, has proven to be immune from the efforts of Taylorism's successors, the ' reengineers ', whose mandate often comes from skewed motives among people referred to as ' bean counters ' and ' PHBs '.

In English-language discussions of Chinese topics, the term " red bean " is often used ( especially in reference to red bean paste ), but in other contexts this usage can cause confusion with other beans that are also red.

A Jiangyin specialty is Matisu, a deep fried bread that is often sprinkled with sesame seeds and filled with red bean paste.

In Korea, slightly cooked mung bean sprouts, called sukjunamul ( hangul: 숙주나물 ), are often served as a side dish.

* The Deadman Wonderland character Shiro is fond of red bean paste buns and often uses her points earned in competitions to buy them.

The urad bean ( V. mungo ) is sometimes called a " lentil ", while germinating mung bean ( V. radiata ) are often sold as bean sprouts similar to those of the soybean ( Glycine max ).

In one famous case the forensic science department at Kew were able to ascertain that the contents of the stomach of a headless corpse found in the river Thames contained a highly toxic African bean.

It is also found in small amounts in certain members of the Fabaceae ( bean ) family, including Acacia berlandieri.

() or edamame bean is a preparation of immature soybeans in the pod, which commonly are found in the cuisines of Japan, China, and Hawaii.

Oldest known attestation of the " children of the dragon " list is found in the Shuyuan Zaji ( 椒园杂记, Miscellaneous records from the bean garden ) by Lu Rong ( 1436 – 1494 ); however, he noted that the list enumerates mere synonyms of various antiques, not children of a dragon.

Side dishes of mung bean sprouts, zucchini ( even though zucchini is not a popular vegetable in Japan and rarely found in the market ), garlic chips, or fried rice usually accompany the meal.

The bean was first unearthed at Awazu-kotei Ruin of Japanese mid Jōmon period in 4000BC, and later it was commonly found on many Jomon ruins in 4000BC to 2000BC in Japan.

Instruments on the recording Peyote include tongue drums, roto-toms, bongos, congas, " big bean ," " found percussion ," drum machine, wind chimes, loops, frying pan, bass guitar, samples, keyboards, fractal guitar, e-bow, flutes, chants, radio, wildlife, tablas, berimbau, nose-singing, and vocals.

An example of green manure use comes from Nigeria, where the cover crop Mucuna pruriens ( velvet bean ) has been found to increase the availability of phosphorus in soil after a farmer applies rock phosphate ( Vanlauwe et al.

Researchers found that the planting of several different leguminous cover crops ( such as bell bean, woollypod vetch, New Zealand white clover, and Austrian winter pea ) provided sufficient pollen as a feeding source to cause a seasonal increase in E. tularensis populations, which with good timing could potentially introduce enough predatory pressure to reduce pest populations of citrus thrips ( Grafton-Cardwell et al.

* Sweet bean paste ( 豆沙, dòu shā ): A number of pastes are common fillings found in Chinese desserts.

* Taiwanese-style mooncake: The most traditional mooncake found within Taiwan is filled with sweetened red bean paste, sometimes with mochi in the center.

Smooth bean paste is mainly found as fillings for Chinese pastries.

Fabada asturiana, often simply known as fabada, is a rich Spanish bean stew, originally from and most commonly found in the autonomous community of Asturias, but widely available throughout the whole of Spain and in Spanish restaurants worldwide.

Schultes and colleges ( 1977 ) examined a 120 year old bean collection and found 0. 6 % bufotenin with no DMT or 5-MeO-DMT present at all.

The person who found the bean would rule the feast.

As in Europe, whoever found the baked-in bean was king for a day, but unique to English tradition other items were sometimes included in the cake.

Custom dictated that the youngest child present cut and serve the cake and whoever found the bean or prize in the Twelfth Night cake was crowned " King of the Bean " similar to the European king cake custom.

Determinate nodules are found on tropical ( sub ) legumes, such as those of the genera Glycine ( soybean ), Phaseolus ( common bean ), Lotus, and Vigna.

" The first Marine, he found the bean, parlez-vous.

It is found naturally in many plants, notably in high concentration in the tonka bean ( Dipteryx odorata ), vanilla grass ( Anthoxanthum odoratum ), sweet woodruff ( Galium odoratum ), mullein ( Verbascum spp.

Charles Darwin himself performed experiments where he found that in a vertical bean root, a contact stimulus could divert the root away from the vertical.

In making his decision, Justice Gray mentioned another case where it had been claimed that beans were seeds — Justice Bradley, in Robertson v. Salomon, 130 U. S. 412, 414, similarly found that though a bean is botanically a seed, in common parlance a bean is seen as a vegetable.