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Definition of Egyptian bean

1. Noun. Perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Egyptian Bean

Literary usage of Egyptian bean

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

1. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller, Kate Grace Barber Winton (1916)
"egyptian bean. Seeds of the Egyptian or hyacinth bean (Dolichos Lablab L., Lablab vulgaris Savi.) are much eaten in the Tropics. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquitiesby William George Smith, Charles Anthon by William George Smith, Charles Anthon (1870)
"Theophrastus, in • unt which he gives of the egyptian bean, does not in the least hint, as Martyn remarks, that ! part of the plant was called ..."

3. Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures: Explain'd and Exemplify'd in by John Arbuthnot (1727)
"The ^egyptian bean mufl have been very ... he determines the Dofe either by an ^egyptian bean or by an ..."

4. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1871)
"This egyptian bean," says Dioscorides, was " chiefly produced in Egypt, and in Asia, and in Cilicia, in stagnant waters." He says it has a large leaf like ..."

5. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1820)
"Celsus (179) gave this as an anodyne to the size of an egyptian bean, whose dimensions, ... 13, and, therefore, we must consider the egyptian bean as ..."

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