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calabar |
calabar bean
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| calabash tree
calabar bean
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun calabar bean has 1 sense
- calabar bean(n = noun.plant) ordeal bean - dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine; source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft; Array is a part of calabar-bean vine, physostigma venenosum
is a kind of bean
OXFORD DICTIONARY
calabar bean, n. a poisonous seed of the tropical African climbing plant Physostigma venosum, yielding a medicinal extract.
Etymology
Calabar in Nigeria
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