Definition of Bean-caper family

1. Noun. Small trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions; often resinous; some poisonous: genera Zygophyllum, Tribulus, Guaiacum, Larrea.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Bean-caper Family

beams up
beamsome
beamspace
beamsplitter
beamsplitters
beamster
beamstop
beamstops
beamstrahlung
beamtime
beamtimes
beamwidth
beamwidths
beamy
bean
bean-caper family (current term)
bean-counter
bean-counters
bean-eater
bean-eaters
bean-feast
bean-pole
bean-shaped plasma
bean-shooter
bean-shooters
bean aphid
bean bag
bean bags
bean ball

Literary usage of Bean-caper family

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

1. Flora of the southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"(bean-caper family.) Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with hard wood, opposite pinnate dotless stipulate leaves, and regular hypogynous mostly ..."

2. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"... rising 4—5 feet high, and in autumn a useful contrast for evergreens in the fine red of the stems and fruc.ification. LX. THE bean-caper family. ..."

3. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1906)
"CREOSOTE-BUSH OR BEAN CAPER FAMILY. Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves.—Opposite; mostly compound ; stipulate. Flowers.—Solitary; perfect; regular ..."

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