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Definition of Canavalia gladiata
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 Canavalia Gladiata
Literary usage of Canavalia gladiata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punjab Plants: Comprising Botanical and Vernacular Names, and Uses of Most by John Lindsay Stewart (1869)
"canavalia gladiata. DC. Vernacular. sem. A kind of bean cultivated in gardens,
for its unripe pod as well as its seed. CARAGANA PYGM.XA. DC. (VERSICOLOR. ..."
2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1862)
"J canavalia gladiata, which is only found in a cultivated state, is probably the
domesticated form of C. virosa. I have therefore included the native names ..."
3. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Asiatic Society of Bengal, Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India) (1892)
"C. turgida is certainly not identical with C. ensiformis, even if we admit that
the canavalia gladiata, cultivated in the Eastern Hemisphere, is conspecific ..."
4. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke (1864)
"1. Glycine labialis, W. and A.; slender climber; plateaux. 2° N. Nov. ,1862. 1.
canavalia gladiata f DC.; waxy, sweet-scented, rose-pink flowers. ..."
5. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Besides these there are climbing in the forest various Leguminosae, such as
canavalia gladiata, Desmodium adscendens, ..."
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