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    CALABAR-BEAN VINE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Tropical African woody vine yielding calabar beansplay

    Synonyms:

    calabar-bean vine; Physostigma venenosum

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("calabar-bean vine" is a kind of...):

    vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

    Meronyms (parts of "calabar-bean vine"):

    calabar bean; ordeal bean (dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine; source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft)

    Holonyms ("calabar-bean vine" is a member of...):

    genus Physostigma; Physostigma (African woody vines: calabar beans)

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