Cal|a|bar bean

Cal|a|bar bean
Cal|a|bar bean «KAL uh BAHR»,
the poisonous seed of a tropical African climbing plant of the pea family, from which the alkaloid physostigmine is obtained.
[probably < Calabar, a river and its region in Nigeria]

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