Usage examples (22)

• In a few days the maggots will disappear and in their places small oval, brown bean-like objects will appear.
• Now, the most important thing I saw was the bean-like material that had some strange -- some symbols along the inner surface.
• Seeds (with shell) or cotyledons (shell removed) are boiled for 2-3 hours and the bean-like cotyledons eaten (Pokot, Tugen, Marakwet).
• I bought dry pinto beans and soaked them over night so they would stop being so much like hard plastic and undergo a bean-like transformation, and now I am cooking those...