Beagle

a variety of the Hound, smaller than Harrier (q.v.) and, like that breed, used for Bean, the name commonly applied to Fuba the brond or Windsor bean, to its seeds to other plants, mostly leguminous, having large The bean is an annual leguminous plant, to be a native of the eastern Mediterranean cultivated probably before B.c. 1000. It is erect plant, two to four feet high, with quad. doa! stem, pinnate leaves of four to eight oval fragrant white flowers blotched with violet, green pods, and roundish kidney-shaped flat seeds. The precept of Pythagoras to his to abstain from beans has been explained a figurative advice not to meddle with politics, being used in the A then i an ballot; and the family of the Fabii are said to have derived name from succe in the cultivation of beans. were probably introduced into England by ) Bear. the Romans, and are now largely grown as food for both horses and men. The French or kidney bean is the unripe pod of Phaseolus vulgar is; the scarlet runner, that of P. muiltiflorus. The haricot bean is the ripe seed of P. vulgar is; the Lima bean, a favourite in America, that of P. dwnatue.