Many of them also have a slightly mealy, beanlike texture.

It had a beanlike taste but sweeter; good enough for a starving man.

Catalpas are fascinating for their huge numbers of long beanlike fruits.

His huddled figure stretched to a long, beanlike form.

Perhaps Long Steve could squeeze his beanlike body between bars, the way that others had, but he wasn't the sort to risk it.

She screamed with shock and twisted away from the beanlike arms outspread to clutch her.

Is the beanlike fruit useful for anything?

It blooms in early spring, is pollinated by bees, and forms beanlike pods.

The following example creates a closed beanlike shape for the character "B" of a font:

The beanlike seeds require scarification to break down their tough seed coats before they can germinate.

The fruit is a legume pod 2 or 3 centimeters long containing several beanlike seeds.

The uninhibited way in which Steve responded to the beanlike hugs and ritual hand-slaps turned Malone's stomach.

It has inflorescences of tubular, greenish-white flowers which yield beanlike fruits within pods that rattle when dry.

They have a main erect stem with inflorescences of blue or purple flowers and produce hairy legume pods containing beanlike seeds.

The fruit is a legume pod, flattened or inflated and coated in hairs, reaching up to 12 centimeters long and filled with beanlike seeds.

The small electric car that Mitsubishi calls the "i" (adapted from the Japan-market i-MiEV) uses the same beanlike body as a gas model.

A yellow, bell-shaped flower on a tree was a "campanelli yalo"; another tree, its branches thorned and festooned with beanlike pods, was an "anganelli."

TAMARIND - The pulp inside the brown beanlike pod has a sharp sweet-sour taste and is used mostly as a flavoring.

These later develop into one- to two-inch beanlike pods, typical of the pea and bean family Leguminosae; its botanical name is from the ancient Greek word for bean.

Mark Dean Veca's four, juicy pictures of pneumatic trees with jelly beanlike leaves against bright yellow skies give this tiny gallery a delightfully hallucinogenic ambiance (Johnson).

When it was ready he spread upon it the beanlike pebbles and began picking them up in his damaged hands, slamming them back down on the flat rock, and counting them out in fours.

I particularly remarked, in the clearings left by trees that had fallen and been partially consumed by time, many leguminous (beanlike) shrubs, such as the maple and other eatable trees, dear to ruminating animals.

I wanted to try the Spanish beans called pochas, but I had run out of them, so I turned to hominy - dried, reconstituted corn kernels that have a beanlike texture and soak up sauces well.

When the flesh had dried but was still pliable, they slipped the resultant circlets over their helmets, each with its little xacapili pearl facing front-that is, the shriveled, beanlike gristle that had been a tender xacapili.

A. The beanlike aspects suggest that the growth was some kind of legume that climbed your vines, but whatever it was, it definitely wasn't a clematis, said Susan Austin, who grows roughly 200 varieties at Completely Clematis in Ipswich, Mass., www.clematisnursery.com or (978) 356-3197.