jel·ly·bean

[jel-ee-been]
noun
a small, bean-shaped, usually brightly colored candy with a hard sugar coating and a firm gelatinous filling.

Origin:
1900–05, Americanism; jelly + bean

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
Cite This Source Link To jellybean
Collins
World English Dictionary
jellybean (ˈdʒɛlɪˌbiːn) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
a bean-shaped sweet with a brightly coloured coating around a gelatinous filling

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
00:10
Jellybean is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
Example sentences
One of them began sticking his jellybean atoms together in the shape of alternating pentagons and hexagons.
It always produced many laughs to catch a trout on a jellybean.
Mitochondria are jellybean-shaped structures whose jobs include making the fuel that our cells use to power everything they do.
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT