A plant that resembles or is related to beans, particularly certain climbing or trailing weeds.
Compound of 'bean' and 'weed' (from Old English 'weod'). The term describes plants that either grow among bean crops or resemble beans botanically.
Beanweed is another example of folk botanical naming—common people identified plants by comparison to better-known plants, creating compound descriptive names that reveal how ordinary people categorized the plant world.
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