Calabar Bean Definition
kălə-bär
noun
The large, brown, poisonous seed of a woody, leguminous tropical African vine (Physostigma venenosum) used in medicine as a source of physostigmine.
Webster's New World
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Noun
Singular:
Calabar bean
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Calabar beansOrigin of Calabar Bean
It derives the first part of its taxonomic name from a curious beak-like appendage at the end of the stigma, in the centre of the flower; this appendage, though solid, was supposed to be hollow (hence the name from Ancient Greek φῦσα (phusa), a bladder, and stigma).
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After Calabar , a town of southeast Nigeria
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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