calabar-bean vine

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   tropical African woody vine yielding calabar beans

   SynonymsPhysostigma venenosum

   Broadervine

   Part ofPhysostigma

   Partscalabar bean

Questions about calabar-bean vine

What does calabar-bean vine mean?

calabar-bean vine means "tropical African woody vine yielding calabar beans".

What is another word for calabar-bean vine?

Close synonyms include Physostigma venenosum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calabar-bean vine a common word?

calabar-bean vine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.