A variety of common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, with a dark-red skin.

(idiomatic, mildly derogatory) A person who is excessively interested in controlling or reducing expenses, increasing profits, or in quantitative details in general. The term is often used to imply the person is a pedant and incapable of seeing other things or the bigger picture (more general things), but it is also widely used as a mildly derogatory term and even facetious synonym for accountants, CEOs, CFOs, business and government officials responsible for financial decisions, etc.

A food consisting of beans baked or stewed in a usually tomato-based sauce.

Alternative form of soybean

Alternative form of St Ignatius' bean

Tofu.

The seedpod of any plant in the Vanilla genus, (family: orchid) especially Vanilla planifolia.

The seed of the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis; used in the production of castor oil and of the poison ricin.

A bean plant with black seeds. / A dried seed of a black bean plant. / A dried black seed of certain varieties of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris. / A fermented soybean, used in Asian cooking.

(UK) A herbaceous plant from the Americas, Phaseolus vulgaris, the bean of which is eaten as both a green bean and dried, when it is cooked slowly as Boston baked beans