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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. |