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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See Calabar bean.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The Calabar bean.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) See Calabar bean, under Calabar.

WordNet 3.0

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

Etymologies

  1. It was formerly used by the natives in trials for witchcraft. (Wiktionary)
  2. So called from its alleged use as a test for witchcraft. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. bean

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  1. chop-nut
  1. Calabar bean
  1. ordeal root

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