| 单词 | nicker bean |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnicker bean nicker bean n. (a) = sense 1; (b) = sense 2 (cf. Molucca bean n.). ΚΠ 1857 I. F. Holton New Granada iv. 47 I have seen it since.., growing in company with the low, straggling, abominably thorny bush that bears the burning beans or nicker-beans, Guilandina Bonduc. 1891 Bot. Gaz. 16 136 Another common plant of the lowlands [of Jamaica] and one which the collector is likely to remember with regret is the necker-bean. This is a more or less climbing shrub..bearing clusters of spiny pods which contain about two drab seeds the size of marbles. 1950 Ecol. Monogr. 20 328/1 The nicker bean, Guilandina crista, may also root on the dry land and then invade to the tops of the mangrove itself. < as lemmas |
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