Calabar Bean

Definition: Calabar Bean

Calabar Bean

Noun

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

Specialty Definitions: Calabar Bean

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	The higly poisonous seed of a tropical African woody vine(Physostigma venenosum)used to produce contraction of the pupil of the eye and in tetanus and strychnine poisoning. It is the common ordeal bean employed by the natives in trials for witchcraft. Source: European Union. (references)
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Crosswords: Calabar Bean

English words defined with "calabar bean": Calabarine ♦ Eserine ♦ Ordeal bean. (references)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Calabar Bean

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Modern Translations: Calabar Bean

Language		Translations for "calabar bean"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		kalabárbab (ordeal bean). (various references)

Pig Latin		alabarcay eanbay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Calabar Bean

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-b-b-c-e-l-n-r"
	-3 letters: balancer, barnacle.
	-4 letters: balance, cabbala, clabber.
	-5 letters: anlace, arable, arcana, arcane, barbal, barbel, cabala, cabana, carnal, labara, lancer, nabber, rabble.
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