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CALABAR-BEAN VINE

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Meaning:

Tropical African woody vine yielding calabar beans

Synonyms:

calabar-bean vine; Physostigma venenosum

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Nouns denoting plants

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

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Meronyms (parts of "calabar-bean vine"):

calabar bean; ordeal bean (dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine; source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft)

Holonyms ("calabar-bean vine" is a member of...):

genus Physostigma; Physostigma (African woody vines: calabar beans)

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