Definition of Beanlike

1. Adjective. Resembling a bean or some aspect of one. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Beanlike

1. resembling a bean [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beanlike

beancounters
beancurd
beaned
beaner
beaneries
beaners
beanery
beanfeast
beanfeasts
beanhole
beanholes
beanie
beanies
beaning
beanless
beanlike (current term)
beanmeal
beano
beanos
beanpole
beanpoles
beanpot
beanpots
beans
beanspilling
beanstalk
beanstalks
beany
bear's-breech

Literary usage of Beanlike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"The fruit is a flat beanlike pod about 2\ inches long, | inch wide, with few small, flattened seeds. ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"The flowers are beanlike white or pale, borne two or three together on the summit of a long axillary peduncle. The pods are slender, usually curved, ..."

3. How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants when Not in Flower by Means of by Maude Gridley Peterson (1914)
"Two rows of flat beanlike seeds are arranged horizontally and alternate with each other throughout the length of the berry. The seeds are inclosed in fleshy ..."

4. A Source Book of Biological Nature-study by Elliot Rowland Downing (1919)
"Fruit, a flat, beanlike, dry or fleshy pod 1. Leaflets with small, wavy teeth. Pods flat, broad, long, often twisted, thin-skinned, with thick, cheesy, ..."

5. Simplified Infant Feeding: With Eighty Illustrative Cases by Roger Herbert Dennett (1920)
"For a few days after this change is made some infants will have stools which are normal in character except for a few large, tough, beanlike curds, ..."

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