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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -calabar-, *calabar*
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WordNet (3.0)
calabar bean(n) dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine; source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft, Syn. ordeal bean
calabar-bean vine(n) tropical African woody vine yielding calabar beans, Syn. Physostigma venenosum

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Calabar

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 ]

Calabarine

n. (Chem.) An alkaloid resembling physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean. [ 1913 Webster ]

Japanese-English: EDICT Dictionary
網目鰻[あみめうなぎ;アミメウナギ, amimeunagi ; amimeunagi] (n) (uk) reedfish (Erpetoichthys calabaricus); ropefish [Add to Longdo]

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