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  • adjective having a shape resembling a bean

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Examples

  • Hello, puce- and azure-flecked carpet, and hello, gargantuan bean-shaped fish tank with the silver loaches and the swaying, plastic green fronds.

    Forgiving the Governor of South Carolina Heather Kirn Lanier 2011

  • "I feel it's very much my show in that every decision you see on the show has come from that desk," she says, gesturing toward the pale green, bean-shaped table in her office.

    Now it's Oprah's moment Robin Givhan 2010

  • Something bean-shaped and gray, flickering like a tiny strobe light.

    Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009

  • Tumbling together, they rolled onto a slab of concrete beside a bean-shaped swimming pool.

    Alienated DAVID O. RUSSELL 2009

  • Tumbling together, they rolled onto a slab of concrete beside a bean-shaped swimming pool.

    Alienated DAVID O. RUSSELL 2009

  • Something bean-shaped and gray, flickering like a tiny strobe light.

    Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009

  • Something bean-shaped and gray, flickering like a tiny strobe light.

    Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009

  • Suffice it to say that Beanworld is a sort of universe unto itself, populated by bean-shaped sentients with spindly limbs, only a handful of which have their own particular names and functions within the society.

    Review: Larry Marder’s Beanworld Book 1: Wahoolazuma! 2009

  • It looks like a bean-shaped hot-tub with a giant handle presumably so that God can easily pick it up and place it wherever he wants his newest child to be born.

    The Waterbirth Vessel Puts The Party Back In Childbirth | Best Week Ever 2008

  • Lymph nodes are bean-shaped filters for your immune system that collect and destroy bacteria and viruses.

    The 10 Best Questions Dede Bonner 2008

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