- CALABAR BEAN
- seed of an African bean, employed in medicine, known as the Ordeal Bean, as, being poisonous, having been used to test the innocence of people charged with witchcraft.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
CALABAR BEAN
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Calabar bean — the violently poisonous seed of an African climbing plant, Physostigma venenosum, of the legume family, the active principle of which is physostigmine. Also called ordeal bean. [1875 80; named after CALABAR, Nigeria] * * * … Universalium
Calabar bean — Cal′abar bean n. pln the poisonous seed of an African climbing plant, Physostigma venenosum, of the legume family, the active principle of which is physostigmine • Etymology: 1875–80; after Calabar … From formal English to slang
Calabar bean — 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… … New Collegiate Dictionary
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