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Definition of Goa bean
1. Noun. A tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings; Old World tropics.
Group relationships: Genus Psophocarpus, Psophocarpus
Generic synonyms: Vine
2. Noun. Old World tropical bean.
Group relationships: Goa Bean Vine, Manila Bean, Psophocarpus Tetragonolobus, Winged Bean, Winged Pea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goa Bean
Literary usage of Goa bean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1862)
"Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, DC., the goa bean, is cultivated in gardens for the
table, but not to any great ... In Tamil it is called goa bean; in Hindi, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"goa bean, the edible seed of an Indian plant. St. Ignatius bean, the seeds of
the lo- gania family which yield strychnin. Indian bean, the catalpa. ..."
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