Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given to the Pyrus intermedia of northern Europe, and to species of Bauhinia; in Australia, to the Moreton Bay chestnut, Castanospermum Australe; in the United States, sometimes, to Catalpa bignonioides; and in Jamaica, to Erythrina Corrallodendron.
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Examples
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After crossing the range, we found the bean-tree in blossom; it was magnificent.
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Here again we have also met with the bean-tree, the blossoms of a bright crimson, and at this season they seem to shed their leaves.
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Who beachcombed my three rudders, the one toilfully adzed out in one piece from the beautiful heart of a bean-tree log, another cunningly fitted with a sliding fin, and that of red cedar with famous brass mountings?
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For the walls I visited an old bean-tree log in the jungle, cut off blocks in suitable lengths, and split them with maul and wedges into rough slabs, roughly adzed away superfluous thickness, and carried them one by one to the brink of the canyon, down which I cast them.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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A casual remark, as I observed the industry of insects about the flowers, that the bean-tree was good for bees, elicited the scornful response, “Good for man!”
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When “calloo-calloo” comes to the islands, resident blacks look to the flowering of the bean-tree, for the events are coincident; while as they understand all its vocal inflections an important secret is often revealed to them by noisy exclamations.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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Its advent is hailed with satisfaction, for the belief exists that it causes the bean-tree — the source of
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In heralding the flower of the bean-tree, and thus awakening thoughts of the beans, and in indicating snakes (both desirable and indeed essential articles of food), the “calloo-calloo” performs such valuable service that it is highly commended.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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One pudding might certainly be included, VERMICELLI (shredded bean-tree nuts — “tinda-burra”) with honey and orange-coloured balsamic custard, scraped from the outside of the drupes of the PANDANUS ODORATISSIMUS (“pim-nar”).
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For this purpose the coral bean-tree (_Erythrina Corallodendrum_) is chosen.
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