(linguistics) Initialism of Black English. / Initialism of Buddhist Era. / Abbreviation of Berlin, a federal state of Germany. / Abbreviation of Bengkulu, a province of Indonesia.

The immature pods of any kind of bean plant, eaten as a vegetable. / The immature pods of numerous varieties of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris.

A passerine bird (Biatas nigropectus) of the antbird family.

(with "years" or "age") Pertaining to the time between puberty and menopause when a woman is able to bear children.

Pronunciation spelling of there ought to be a law.

Alternative form of soybean

(inorganic chemistry) in qualitative inorganic analysis, a test for the presence of certain metallic elements by observing the colours given to a bead of borax in a loop of platinum wire held in the oxidizing and reducing parts of a Bunsen burner flame

An American black bear, Ursus americanus, indigenous to North America. / An Asiatic black bear, Ursus thibetanus.

A climbing plant, Phaseolus coccineus, having long bean pods. / (chiefly Britain) The pods, sliced, as a vegetable.

seed of the cocoa plant; used to make chocolate, cocoa and cocoa butter