teparyn.
/ˈtɛpəri/ In full, tepary bean. An annual legume, Phaseolus acutifolius, native to south-western North America, or a cultivated plant belonging to a variety developed from it and resistant to drought; also, the seed of a plant of this kind.
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1912 G. F. Freeman Southwestern Beans 582 The name tepary or tepari (Spanish) originated from the Papago.
1912 C. Lumholtz New Trails in Mexico 318 He had cooked bones of mountain-sheep with tépari beans for us.
1925 K. Bryan Papago Country 354 The beans known as tépari..are said to be so resistant to drought that the plants may wither three successive times and then, if enough rain comes, mature a crop.
1942 E. F. Castetter & W. H. Bell Pima & Papago Indian Agric. 92 The cultivated tepary bean antedates the coming of the white man in the southwest.
1942 E. F. Castetter & W. H. Bell Pima & Papago Indian Agric. 191 The Papago made only one planting of teparies.
1972 Y. Lovelock Veg. Bk. i. 56 The Texas or tepary bean..grows wild and is much cultivated in Mexico and the adjoining states of the U.S.
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