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A bean-like vegetable called guar has become invisibly ubiquitous, though its impact on demand and prices has been anything but.

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Oil-drilling fluids The bean-like vegetable with emulsifying properties is a crucial ingredient in the slurries that drillers use to coax oil and gas from shale formations in a process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Farmer Says: Hitch Your Wagons to Some 'Guar' Ryan Dezember 2011

And genes themselves are now known not to be independent, bean-like items connected to particular transmitted traits, but aspects of a most intricate process, sensitive to all sorts of internal factors, so that in many ways the same genes can result in a different creature.

A valuable onslaught on neo-Darwinist simplicities « Anglican Samizdat 2010

Locust trees produce a bean-like pod, 6-8 inches long.

Honey Granola for St. John the Baptist Jessica 2009

Chepil or chipil, crotalaria longirostrata: An important ingredient in Oaxacan cooking, probably because of its drought resistance, the tiny leaves are tucked into the famous tamales de chepil and their green bean-like flavor adds a delicious touch to white rice.

A Culinary Guide to Mexican Herbs: Las Hierbas de Cocina 2006

Professor HOMI BHABHA (English, Harvard University): In my grandmother's home, on Parsi New Year we drank this absolutely delicious milkshake-like drink, falooda, made with pink rosewater and ice cream, little jelly bean-like seeds.

Sugar in the Milk: A Parsi Kitchen Story 2008

Chepil or chipil, crotalaria longirostrata: An important ingredient in Oaxacan cooking, probably because of its drought resistance, the tiny leaves are tucked into the famous tamales de chepil and their green bean-like flavor adds a delicious touch to white rice.

A Culinary Guide to Mexican Herbs: Las Hierbas de Cocina 2006

Chepil or chipil, crotalaria longirostrata: An important ingredient in Oaxacan cooking, probably because of its drought resistance, the tiny leaves are tucked into the famous tamales de chepil and their green bean-like flavor adds a delicious touch to white rice.

A Culinary Guide to Mexican Herbs: Las Hierbas de Cocina 2006

Now, the most important thing I saw was the bean-like material that had some strange -- some symbols along the inner surface.

CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2007 2007

Now, the most important thing I saw was the bean-like material that had some strange -- some symbols along the inner surface.

CNN Transcript Aug 4, 2007 2007