bean vs tonka bean

tonka bean vs bean

bean and tonka bean both are nouns.

bean is a verb but tonka bean is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bean	Yes	No	Yes	No
tonka bean	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tonka bean is a hyponym of bean; that is, tonka bean is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bean:

bean: any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans
tonka bean: fragrant black nutlike seeds of the tonka bean tree; used in perfumes and medicines and as a substitute for vanilla

Other hyponyms of bean include coumara nut, algarobilla, algarroba, algarrobilla, calabar bean, ordeal bean, divi-divi, algarroba, algarroba bean, carob, carob bean, locust bean, locust pod, soy, soya bean, soybean, broad bean, fava bean, horsebean, golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung, mung bean, munggo.

bean (noun)	tonka bean (noun)
informal terms for a human head	tall tropical South American tree having pulpy egg-shaped pods of fragrant black almond-shaped seeds used for flavoring
any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food	fragrant black nutlike seeds of the tonka bean tree; used in perfumes and medicines and as a substitute for vanilla
any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods
any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans

bean (verb)	tonka bean (verb)
hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball

Difference between bean and tonka bean

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