CALABAR BEAN


Meaning of CALABAR BEAN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈka-lə-ˌbär- ]

noun

Etymology: Calabar, Nigeria

Date: 1864

: the dark brown highly poisonous leguminous seed of a tropical west African woody vine ( Physostigma venenosum ) that is used as a source of physostigmine and was used formerly as an ordeal poison in African witchcraft trials

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