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Definition of Sword bean

1. Noun. Twining tropical Old World plant bearing long pods usually with red or brown beans; long cultivated in Orient for food.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sword Bean

Literary usage of Sword bean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"The sword bean (C. gladiata) has often been grouped together with the jack bean, ... The sword bean is somewhat used as a vegetable, the young, ..."

2. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"The sword bean (C. gladiata) has often been grouped together with the jack bean, ... The sword bean is somewhat used as a vegetable, the young, ..."

3. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1920)
""Jack bean" у "sword bean" o sean los frijoles "cumali. ... Analyses of the "Jack bean," Canavalia ensiformis, and "sword bean," Canavalin ..."

4. Bulletin by Puerto Rico Federal Experiment Station, Mayaguez (1916)
"This species, known as the sword bean, is an old cultivated crop, and, while conditions in Porto Rico are well suited to its needs, it has been known here ..."

5. Report by Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station, John Minton Westgate (1907)
"655, C. gladiata (sword bean). Vines of very low growth and twining habit. ... 750, C. gladiata incurva (sword bean). Seeds received March 17, 1913, ..."

6. Ceylon: A General Description of the Island, Historical, Physical by Horatio John Suckling (1876)
"... also in the Coromandel; spreading over the surface it strikes out roots at every joint and binds the sand together, along with a species of sword bean, ..."

7. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"The sword bean (C. gladiata) has often been grouped together with the jack bean, ... The sword bean is somewhat used as a vegetable, the young, ..."

8. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"The sword bean (C. gladiata) has often been grouped together with the jack bean, ... The sword bean is somewhat used as a vegetable, the young, ..."

9. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1920)
""Jack bean" у "sword bean" o sean los frijoles "cumali. ... Analyses of the "Jack bean," Canavalia ensiformis, and "sword bean," Canavalin ..."

10. Bulletin by Puerto Rico Federal Experiment Station, Mayaguez (1916)
"This species, known as the sword bean, is an old cultivated crop, and, while conditions in Porto Rico are well suited to its needs, it has been known here ..."

11. Report by Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station, John Minton Westgate (1907)
"655, C. gladiata (sword bean). Vines of very low growth and twining habit. ... 750, C. gladiata incurva (sword bean). Seeds received March 17, 1913, ..."

12. Ceylon: A General Description of the Island, Historical, Physical by Horatio John Suckling (1876)
"... also in the Coromandel; spreading over the surface it strikes out roots at every joint and binds the sand together, along with a species of sword bean, ..."

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