BEAN

bean

Function: noun [count]

Plural: beans

Meanings:
1 a : a seed that is eaten as a vegetable and that comes from any one of many different kinds of climbing plants
Example:
beans for dinner.>

1 b : a part of a plant that contains very young seeds and that is eaten as a vegetable

1 c : a plant that produces beans
Example:
beans in our garden this year.>

2 : a seed that looks like a bean but that does not come from a climbing plant
Examples:
beans>
beans>
bean>

Idiom:
full of beans
Status: informal
Meanings:
1 : full of energy and life
Examples:
full of beans.>
full of beans.>

2 US: not correct or truthful : full of nonsense
Example:
full of beans.>

Idiom:
not know beans about
Status: US, informal
Meaning:
: to not know anything about (something)
Example:
doesn't know beans about computers. [=he knows nothing about computers]>

Idiom:
spill the beans
Status: informal
Meaning:
: to reveal secret information
Example:
spill the beans.>