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Definition: Calabar Bean |
Calabar BeanNoun1. Dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine; source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Calabar BeanSynonym: ordeal bean (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: calabar (european union, medicine). |
Crosswords: Calabar Bean |
| English words defined with "calabar bean": Calabarine ♦ Eserine ♦ Ordeal bean. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
calabar bean | 2 |
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| 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. | ||
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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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6C 61 62 61 72      42 65 61 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101100 01100001 01100010 01100001 01110010 00100000 01000010 01100101 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a l a b a r   B e a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006C 0061 0062 0061 0072      0042 0065 0061 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37677867686784236716780 |
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