ordeal bean

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscalabar bean

   Broaderbean

   Part ofcalabar-bean vine

Questions about ordeal bean

What does ordeal bean mean?

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

What is another word for ordeal bean?

Close synonyms include calabar bean. 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 ordeal bean a common word?

ordeal bean 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.