CALABAR BEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calabar bean mean? 

• CALABAR BEAN (noun)
  The noun CALABAR BEAN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CALABAR BEAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALABAR BEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

calabar bean; ordeal bean

Hypernyms ("calabar bean" is a kind of...):

bean (any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans)

Holonyms ("calabar bean" is a part of...):

calabar-bean vine; Physostigma venenosum (tropical African woody vine yielding calabar beans)