Bean

:This article is on the plant. For alternate meanings, see Bean (disambiguation)

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Bean is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of Fabaceae (formerly Leguminosae) used for food or feed.

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Bean originally meant the seed of the broad bean, but was later broadened to include members of the genus Phaseolus such as the common bean or haricot and the runner bean and the related genus Vigna. The term is now applied in a general way to many other related plants such as soybeans, peas, lentils, vetches and lupins.

Seed: A seed is the ripened ovule of gymnosperm or angiosperm plants. The importance of the seed relative to more primitive forms of reproduction and dispersal is attested to by the success of these two groups of plants in dominating the landscape....

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Broad bean: REDIRECT Vicia faba...

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