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Definition of Bean caper
1. Noun. Perennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers.
Group relationships: Genus Zygophyllum, Zygophyllum
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Medical Definition of Bean caper
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bean Caper
Literary usage of Bean caper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1811)
"White Bean-caper. Nat. of the Canary Islands. Introd. ... Four-leaved Bean-caper.
Nyt. of the Cape of Good Hope. caule ..."
2. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1843)
"It is a trailing plant, and may be cultivated in the same manner as the annual
species of Tri- a hotbed. The common Bean-Caper is the ..."
3. Hortus Kewensis: Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1789)
"Four-leav'd Bean-caper. Nat. of the Cape of Good Hope. Cult. 1732, by James
Sherard, MD Dill. elth. ..."
4. The Green-house Companion: Comprising a General Course of Green-house and by John Claudius Loudon (1825)
"Z. maculatum, spotted-flowered Bean-caper, a shrub introduced from China in 1782,
and flowering in October and November. ..."
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