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单词 Calabar-bean
释义 Calabar-bean|kæləˈbɑː ˈbiːn|
[From Calabar, on the Gulf of Guinea, in Africa.]
The seed of Physostigma venenosum, a climbing leguminous plant, called also the Ordeal-bean, administered by the natives to persons suspected of witchcraft.
1876Harley Mat. Med. 654.
Hence calabarine, ‘an alkaloid found in the Calabar bean’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1875H. Wood Therap. (1879) 310.
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