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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine; source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft;
[syn: calabar bean, ordeal bean]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Calabar \Cal"a*bar\, n. A district on the west coast of Africa. [1913 Webster] Calabar bean, The of a climbing legumious plant (Physostigma venenosum), a native of tropical Africa. It is highly poisonous. It is used to produce contraction of the pupil of the eye; also in tetanus, neuralgia, and rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

calabar bean n 1: dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine; source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft [syn: calabar bean, ordeal bean]