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jellybean

jellybean is the alternative spelling of jelly bean.

Meaning of jelly bean

Noun

jelly bean (plural jelly beans)

  1. A small, bean-shaped, chewy candy/sweet with a firm coating and a jelly-like center, made of sugar, flavoring, coloring and sometimes starch or other thickener, and usually sold assorted in a wide variety of flavors and bright colors.
    • Ronalda had gotten these jelly beans special, from Lenox Square. They were all colors, pink with brown flecks, purple, orange. The flavors had exotic names like Piña Colada and Fig Leaf.2020, Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow, Oneworld Publications, page 104
    Synonyms:
    jelly egg

Adjective

jellybean (not comparable)

  1. (slang) of an electronic component, or software algorithm: generic, standard, vanilla, easy to find
    • These were mainly used to implement glue logic, and it was possible to replace fifty or more jellybean devices with a single ASIC.2008, Clive Maxfield, Bebop to the Boolean Boogie

Forms of jellybean

pluraljellybeans

Phrases with jellybean

Questions about jellybean

What does jellybean mean?
Jellybean means of an electronic component, or software algorithm: generic, standard, vanilla, easy to find.
What is jellybean the alternative spelling of?
Jellybean is the alternative spelling of jelly bean.
What part of speech is jellybean?
Jellybean is an adjective.

Words near jellybean in the dictionary

  1. jelly-coconut
  2. jelly-coconuts
  3. jelly-fish
  4. jellybag
  5. jellybags
  6. jellybean
  7. jellybean part
  8. jellybean parts
  9. jellybeans
  10. jellybellies
  11. jellybelly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jellybean (page history and authors); jelly bean (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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