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Definition of Beanlike
1. resembling a bean [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beanlike
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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