MESCAL BEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mescal bean mean? 

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

1. shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MESCAL BEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

coral bean; frijolillo; frijolito; mescal bean; Sophora secundiflora

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

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("mescal bean" is a member of...):

genus Sophora; Sophora (cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and showy flowers; some species placed in genus Podalyria)