In a few days the maggots will disappear and in their places small oval, brown bean-like objects will appear.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Insects] Reference

Now, the most important thing I saw was the bean-like material that had some strange -- some symbols along the inner surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2007] Reference

Seeds (with shell) or cotyledons (shell removed) are boiled for 2-3 hours and the bean-like cotyledons eaten (Pokot, Tugen, Marakwet).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

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 pinto beans!.    From Wordnik.com.  [wilberteets Diary Entry] Reference

A few stunted "gar-boomen" there were, and the horses ate eagerly of the long bunches of bean-like fruit hanging from them; but their thin, withered foliage was no protection against the terrific power of the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference

Professor HOMI BHABHA (English, Harvard University): In my grandmother's home, on Parsi New Year we drank this absolutely delicious milkshake-like drink, falooda, made with pink rosewater and ice cream, little jelly bean-like seeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sugar in the Milk: A Parsi Kitchen Story] Reference

Chepil or chipil, crotalaria longirostrata: An important ingredient in Oaxacan cooking, probably because of its drought resistance, the tiny leaves are tucked into the famous tamales de chepil and their green bean-like flavor adds a delicious touch to white rice.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Culinary Guide to Mexican Herbs: Las Hierbas de Cocina] Reference

A bean-like form is taken; the nucleus divides, and a constriction is suddenly developed; this deepens; the opposite position of the flagella ensues, the nearly divided forms now vigorously pull in opposite directions, the constriction is thus deepened and the tail formed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885] Reference

And genes themselves are now known not to be independent, bean-like items connected to particular transmitted traits, but aspects of a most intricate process, sensitive to all sorts of internal factors, so that in many ways the same genes can result in a different creature.    From Wordnik.com.  [A valuable onslaught on neo-Darwinist simplicities « Anglican Samizdat] Reference

Its bean-like fruit, when roasted, has an agreeable flavor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests] Reference

Instead of flowers, long bean-like capsules made their appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference

A bean-like vine, producing many chocolate-brown flowers in August and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference

Among the fruits I observed numbers of a curious bean-like description.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Banks of the Amazon] Reference

As a reward, chimps like sugarless, jelly bean-like Primatreats in banana and pina colada flavors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis] Reference

It reads faces-config. xml by using ServletContext. getResource () and parses it into bean-like objects using JDOM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sun Bloggers] Reference

At night some of the whirligig beetles, the shiny, bean-like creatures seen whirling in incessant circles in corners by the bank, make a quite audible and almost musical sound upon the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference

Cocoa and chocolate are made from the bean-like seeds of a small tree growing in the tropics and, in cake, or solid, form, contain considerable amounts of fat, and usually sugar and vanilla, which have been added to them to improve their flavor.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Health] Reference

The fruit is equally remarkable, and consists of several crimson cases of the consistency of leather, within which are enclosed a number of black bean-like seeds: these are dispersed by the bursting of their envelope, which splits open to liberate them when sufficiently ripened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

The bean-like cotyledons are boiled for 3-4 hours during which water is replaced 4-6 times (Pokot, Turkana, Tugen, Marakwet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

None of the characters talk, it’s just these weird bean-like creatures wearing overalls and goggles, and they’re adorable.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Teaser Trailer and Poster for DESPICABLE ME Starring Steve Carell – Collider.com] Reference

He thought she looked bean-like?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The first paragraph contest thread] Reference

An ornamental vine with bean-like pods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Berries and Seeds] Reference