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单词 mole bean
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mole bean
mole bean n. [named in allusion to its supposed repellent or toxic properties to moles] U.S. regional the castor-oil bean, Ricinus communis.
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1836 Farmers' Reg. Sept. 288 [The] castor bean plant, sometimes known by the name of mole plant.]
1939 These are our Lives (Federal Writers' Project, U.S.) 376 Nothing left now but that old hanging basket of moss and them mole beans. Caster beans, some calls them.
2000 Tenneseean (Nexis) 17 Sept. h1 They are commonly called a mole bean. They were placed in the mole run in the mistaken belief that moles would eat the seeds and be poisoned by them.
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