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Calabar Bean

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Noun

1. calabar bean, ordeal bean

dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine; source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft

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Calabar Bean

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noun
the dark brown very poisonous seed of a leguminous woody climbing plant, Physostigma venenosum, of tropical Africa, used as a source of the drug physostigmine

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Calabar Bean

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the large, brown, poisonous seed of a woody, leguminous tropical African vine (Physostigma venenosum) used in medicine as a source of physostigmine

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Calabar Bean

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n.
The poisonous seed of a tropical western African woody vine (Physostigma venenosum) in the pea family, the source of physostigmine.

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