CALABAR BEAN

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Meaning:

Dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine; source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft

Synonyms:

calabar bean; ordeal bean

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("calabar bean" is a kind of...):

bean (any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans)

Holonyms ("calabar bean" is a part of...):

calabar-bean vine; Physostigma venenosum (tropical African woody vine yielding calabar beans)

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