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Definition of Horsebean
1. Noun. Seed of the broad-bean plant.
Group relationships: Broad Bean, Broad-bean, Broad-bean Plant, English Bean, European Bean, Field Bean, Vicia Faba
Generic synonyms: Bean
2. Noun. Large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States.
Group relationships: Genus Parkinsonia, Parkinsonia
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Definition of Horsebean
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horsebean
Literary usage of Horsebean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Lawrence (1854)
"They have been soft white masses, the size of a pea or horsebean, ... 95. the bulk
of a horsebean, situated on the sclerotica, and covering a small portion ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1891)
"The sand-box tree of the West Indies has large round fruits, containing seeds
about as big as an English horsebean; and the capsule explodes, when ripe, ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1854)
"... as there is a small gland, in shape and size like a horsebean, situated
immediately behind the auricle, over the middle of the mastoid process, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"... labour and horsebean soup. Severe things are beginning to be said of the
government of Madagascar. ..."
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