单词 | mackenzie bean |
释义 | Mackenzie beann. A trailing plant, Canavalia rosea (or C. maritima) of the family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae), which has edible seed pods and is found in north Australia and elsewhere in the tropics, esp. on beaches. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] Mackenzie bean1847 1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. 180 The scrub is generally an open vitex... The Mackenzie-bean and several other papilionaceous plants..grow in it. 1847 D. Bunce Australasiatic Reminisc. 21 May (1857) 182 Wommai brought me..some green and dry pods of the creeping plant to which we had given the name the Mackenzie Bean, having found it, in the first instance, growing on the banks of that river. 1982 K. McArthur Bush in Bloom 25 We call it simply the Beach Bean because that describes it sufficiently for people living near the coast, as here it is a plant of the sand dunes... Leichhardt called it the Mackenzie Bean because he found it on the Mackenzie River in Central Queensland. 1986 K. Brennan Wildflowers of Kakadu 101 McKenzie Bean Canavalia sp... A distinctive, broad-leafed vine with large, flat seed pods. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1847 |
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