Definition of Bean caper

1. Noun. Perennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers.

Exact synonyms: Syrian Bean Caper, Zygophyllum Fabago
Group relationships: Genus Zygophyllum, Zygophyllum
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub

Medical Definition of Bean caper

1. A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow colour, of the genus Zygophyllum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bean Caper

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
bean beetle
bean blight
bean caper (current term)
bean counter
bean counters
bean curd
bean curve
bean dip
bean feast
bean goose
bean hole
bean holes
bean plant
bean pole
bean poles
bean queen
bean queens

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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