Definition of Calabar-bean vine

1. Noun. Tropical African woody vine yielding calabar beans.

Exact synonyms: Physostigma Venenosum
Group relationships: Genus Physostigma, Physostigma
Terms within: Calabar Bean, Ordeal Bean
Generic synonyms: Vine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calabar-bean Vine

cakewalkers
cakewalking
cakewalks
cakewoman
cakewomen
cakey
cakier
cakiest
cakily
cakiness
cakinesses
caking
cakings
caky
calaba
calabar-bean vine (current term)
calabarine
calabash
calabash curare
calabash pipe
calabash tree
calabashes
calabaza
calabazas
calabazilla
calaboose
calabooses
calabur tree
calabura
calade

Literary usage of Calabar-bean vine

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

1. Twentieth Century Practice: An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical by Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1895)
"... and a fifteen-per-cent. tincture. The British Pharmacopoeia orders the extract only. Fio. ia—Calabar Bean Vine; flowering branch ; reduced. ..."

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