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Beans

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Soybeans

Wikipedia:

Beans
Category: Beans
Category: Edible legumes
Common bean
Pulses
List of edible seeds
Baked beans
Fassoulada

Azuki beans

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In the News . . .

Climbing Beans Improve Life for Rwandan Farmers – In Pictures -- Guardian (27 April 2012)
Lima Beans Domesticated Twice -- ScienceDaily (01 September 2010)

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Dycotyledon seed diagram

bean

NOUN:

a : broad bean
b : the seed of any of various erect or climbing plants (as of the genera Phaseolus and Vigna) of the legume family other than the broad bean
c : a plant bearing beans
d : an immature bean pod used as a vegetable

ETYMOLOGY:

Middle English bene, from Old English bēan; akin to Old High German bōna bean

First Known Use: before 12th century

Merriam Webster OnLine® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
Copyright © 2010 by Merriam-Webster, Inc.
All rights reserved.

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Phaseolus
(Bean, Wild Bean)

Bean beginning to bloom

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Plantae
	Angiosperms
	Eudicots
Subclass:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Tribe:	Phaseoleae
Genus:	Phaseolus
Species:

Binomial name

Wikispecies

Albala, Ken. Beans: A History. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2007.
Beans [Research & Impact: Areas of Research] -- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
Brown, Lester R. Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity. NY: W.W. Norton, 2012.
Cook's Thesaurus on Beans
Grain legumes portal --European Association for Grain Legume Research (AEP)
Lima Beans Domesticated Twice -- ScienceDaily (01 September 2010)
Newman, Kara. The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. Columbia University Press, 2012.
Soybeans [Research & Impact: Areas of Research] -- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
Wilk, Richard and Livia Barbosa (Eds.). Rice and Beans: A Unique Dish in a Hundred Places. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2012.

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Cut green beans

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