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单词 magotty bay bean
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magotty bay beann.

Brit. /ˈmaɡətɪ ˌbeɪ ˈbiːn/, U.S. /ˈmæɡədi ˌbeɪ ˈbin/
Forms: 1700s–1800s magotty bay bean, 1800s maggoty May bean (irregular), 1800s magotty boy bean (irregular), 1800s– magothy bay bean Brit. /ˈmaɡəθɪ ˌbeɪ ˈbiːn/, U.S. /ˈmæɡəθi ˌbeɪ ˈbin/.
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Magothy (Magotha) Bay , bean n.
Etymology: < a geographic name in the Chesapeake Bay area, eastern coastal U.S.A., probably Magothy (or Magotha) Bay, the former name of a small body of sea water between Smith Island and the East coast of Virginia + bean n.The word could alternatively be from the name of the Magotha River or Magotha Bay in Maryland.
U.S.
The partridge pea, Chamaecrista fasciculata.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant
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1786 G. Washington Diary 19 Oct. (1925) III. 127 The Overseer and two or three of the weak hands..were gathering the Wild (or Magity bay) Pea—a tedious operatn [sic].]
1789 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 3 228 The Eastern-shore-bean..is found in all parts of Virginia and Carolina. [Note] Called also the Magotty-Bay-bean.
1829 Virginia Lit. Museum 16 Sept. 221 Whenever a field is not in cultivation, it puts up every where a rich luxuriant crop of a sort of wild vetch, called the magotty-bay bean, which shades the land while it is growing, and, returns to it a rich coat of vegetable manure.
1855 Trans. Amer. Inst. N.-Y. 1854 168 in Docs. Assembly State N.-Y. (78th Session, Doc. No. 144) V On the eastern shore of virginia there grows..a sort of pigeon pea, called the maggoty May [sic] bean.
1876 Virginia: Geogr. & Polit. Summary (Virginia board of Immigration) 29 Under the influence of..the dense crops of wild bent-grass, magothy bay-beans, &c., that grow and decay upon it, it becomes very productive.
1876 Virginia: Geogr. & Polit. Summary (Virginia board of Immigration) Index 295 Magothy-bay beans.
1893 Amer. Folk-Lore 6 140 Cassia Chamaecrista, magotty boy [sic] bean, N.Y.
1915 G. C. Sevey Peas & Pea Culture 2 Partridge Pea (Cassia Chamæcrista).—Sometimes called sensitive pea and Magothy Bay bean.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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