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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. perennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers;
[syn: bean caper, Syrian bean caper, Zygophyllum fabago]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bean caper \Bean" ca`per\ (Bot.) A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Caper \Ca"per\, n. [F. c[^a]pre, fr. L. capparis, Gr. ?; cf. Ar. & Per. al-kabar.] 1. The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush, caper tree. [1913 Webster] Note: The Capparis spinosa is a low prickly shrub of the Mediterranean coasts, with trailing branches and brilliant flowers; -- cultivated in the south of Europe for its buds. The Capparis sodada is an almost leafless spiny shrub of central Africa (Soudan), Arabia, and southern India, with edible berries. [1913 Webster] Bean caper. See Bran caper, in the Vocabulary. Caper sauce, a kind of sauce or catchup made of capers. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bean caper n 1: perennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers [syn: bean caper, Syrian bean caper, Zygophyllum fabago]