Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a bean or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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bean +‎ -like

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Examples

  • KIDNEY FUNCTION: Kidneys are the beanlike organs that are essential for micro-managing your blood chemicals and often the first organ injured by chronic disease.

    You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008

  • KIDNEY FUNCTION: Kidneys are the beanlike organs that are essential for micro-managing your blood chemicals and often the first organ injured by chronic disease.

    You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008

  • There was nothing beanlike about him now, Josephine thought, her mouth suddenly dry.

    Cinderella At The Ball Wells, Robin 1999

  • The seeds were plentiful, beanlike and hard as wood.

    Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

  • The seeds were plentiful, beanlike and hard as wood.

    Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

  • The seeds were plentiful, beanlike and hard as wood.

    Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

  • The seeds were plentiful, beanlike and hard as Wood.

    Blood Test Kellerman, Jonathan 1986

  • When it was ready he spread upon it the beanlike pebbles and began picking them up in his damaged hands, slamming them back down on the flat rock, and counting them out in fours.

    Hawaii Michener, James 1959

  • He purposely made himself ridiculous with the vague idea that he must do something for them in payment of what they were giving him; they struck him on the shoulder-blades to see him gasp with his beanlike mouth, and to see the frightened smile run over his face like a flash of lightning.

    Selected Polish Tales Else C. M. Benecke

  • There were bigger boys, bolder still, to whom this vegetation, or something kindred that escapes me, yielded long black beanlike slips which they lighted and smoked, the smaller ones staring and impressed; I at any rate think of the small one

    A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879

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