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Rangoon|ræŋˈguːn|
The name of the capital of Burma, used attrib. in Rangoon bean, the Lima bean, Phaseolus lunatus var. limensis (see Lima); Rangoon creeper, a tropical climbing shrub, Quisqualis indica, belonging to the family Combretaceæ, native to south-east Asia, and bearing spikes of white, pink, or red flowers having an elongated calyx tube.
1877G. M. Woodrow Hints on Gardening in India (ed. 2) 110 Quisqualis Indica (Rangoon Creeper). A straggling shrub, which may be trained to cover a wall..; flowers vary in colour, from white to rose. 1901L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Horticulture III. 1486/2 This [genus] includes the Rangoon Creeper, a tender woody plant with 5-petaled red flowers. 1922Joyce Ulysses 289 The extremely large wains bring foison of the fields, flaskets of cauliflowers, floats of spinach, pineapple chunks, Rangoon beans, strikes of tomatoes. 1928K. Gough Garden Bk. for Malaya viii. 111 Kopsia and Rangoon creeper are respectively a shrub and a creeper with flowers that shade from pale-pink to deep red-pink. 1971C. Flieger in E. L. Wardman Bermuda Jubilee Garden viii. 163/2 Rangoon creeper. A deciduous clambering shrub with very attractive drooping spikes of elongated pink and red flowers, and a perfume that suggests a mixture of ripe fruits. 1972Y. Lovelock Veg. Bk. i. 55 A variety known as Lima bean.., also Tonga, Burma, Rangoon, Java and Madagascar bean, bears large white seeds which are dried, canned and marketed under the names wax or butter beans. |