| 单词 | nicker bean | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasnicker bean   nicker bean  n. 		 (a) = sense  1;		 (b) = sense  2   (cf. Molucca bean n.). ΚΠ 1857    I. F. Holton New Granada iv. 47  				I have seen it since.., growing in company with the low, straggling, abominably thorny bush that bears the burning beans or nicker-beans, Guilandina Bonduc. 1891    Bot. Gaz. 16 136  				Another common plant of the lowlands [of Jamaica] and one which the collector is likely to remember with regret is the necker-bean. This is a more or less climbing shrub..bearing clusters of spiny pods which contain about two drab seeds the size of marbles. 1950    Ecol. Monogr. 20 328/1  				The nicker bean, Guilandina crista, may also root on the dry land and then invade to the tops of the mangrove itself. < as lemmas  | 
	
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