| 单词 | jack bean |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjack bean jack bean n. any of the tropical climbing leguminous plants of the genus Canavalia; esp. C. ensiformis, which has pale purple flowers and produces long pods with large white seeds. [Perhaps after horse-bean n. at horse n. Compounds 2c; compare sense 34b at this entry.] ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > other types of bean-plant horse-bean1684 Angola pea1756 pole bean1770 Congo pea1812 Canavalia1828 no-eye pea1837 overlook1837 bean-vine1838 asparagus-bean1856 sword-bean1875 jack bean1885 horse-gram1886 winged bean1910 tepary1912 adzuki1914 siratro1962 1885 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Prophet Great Smoky Mountains xv. 280 He sat upon the cabin porch beneath the yellow gourds an the purple blooms of the Jack-bean. 1928 F. S. Earle Sugar Cane & its Culture 237 Among the most important of these [legumes used for green manuring] are velvet beans, jack beans (Canavalia sp.), lab-lab beans (Dolichos lab-lab) [etc.]. 2011 P. K. Bhattacharjee & G. C. Routledge in P. Ducheyne et al. Comprehensive Biomaterials I. 508/2 Concanavalin A (Con A) is a plant lectin, extracted from the jack bean. < as lemmas |
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