单词 | canavalia |
释义 | Canavalian. Botany. A genus of tropical flowering legumes typically having twining, climbing stems, compound leaves, pink or purple flowers, and seeds which may be used as food for humans or livestock. Also (occasionally as canavalia): a plant of this genus; a seed of such a plant. Cf. jack bean n. at Jack n.2 Compounds 4, sword-bean n. at sword n. Compounds 6.Valid publication of the genus name: A. P. de Candolle Mém. Légum. (1825) 375. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > other leguminous plants peaseOE vetchc1400 hatchet vetch1548 mock liquorice1548 scorpion's tail1548 ax-fitch1562 ax-seed1562 axwort1562 treacle clover1562 lady's finger1575 bird's-foot1578 goat's rue1578 horseshoe1578 caterpillar1597 kidney-vetch1597 horseshoe-vetch1640 goat rue1657 kidney-fetch1671 galega1685 stanch1726 scorpion senna1731 Dolichos1753 Sophora1753 partridge pea1787 bauhinia1790 coronilla1793 swamp pea-tree1796 Mysore thorn1814 devil's shoestring1817 pencil flower1817 rattlebox1817 Canavalia1828 milk plant1830 joint-vetch1836 milk pea1843 prairie clover1857 oxytrope1858 rattleweed1864 wart-herb1864 snail-flower1866 poison pea1884 masu1900 money bush1924 Townsville stylo1970 orange bird's-foot2007 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 white bean1542 penny bean?1550 black bean1569 garence1610 mung1611 calavance1620 red bean1658 lablab1670 Cajan1693 dal1698 bonavist1700 tick-bean1744 tick1765 toker1786 mash1801 Lima beana1818 stick bean1823 Canavalia1828 moth1840 cow-pea1846 Lima1856 asparagus pea1859 towcok1866 Java bean1868 wall1884 Rangoon bean1903 Madagascar bean1909 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 1828 Bot. Reg. 14 1199 The remarkably dilated upper lip of the calyx, the minute lower lip, and the monadelphous stamens, distinguish Canavalia. 1847 J. M. Wilson Rural Cycl. I. 667/1 Canavalia, a genus of climbing and trailing plants, of the kidney-bean division of the leguminous order. 1896 Bull. Cornell Univ. Agric. Exper. Station No. 115. 305 This Canavalia seems to be a rather coarse bean when fully matured, but some of my correspondents commend its culinary qualities when green. 1906 A. L. Winton Microsc. Veg. Foods iv. 258 Several tropical and subtropical species of Canavalia yield edible seeds. 1959 J. H. Steward & L. C. Faron Native Peoples S. Amer. xv. 450 Cultivation of Canavalia beans, later of maize, and still later of other crops,..permitted settlement in permanent but small villages. 1980 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 67 564 Canavalia brasiliensis is one of the most widespread and common of the Canavalia species. 2002 Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Herald 16 June a4/5 ‘Fertilizer beans’ such as canavalia or mucuna..draw nitrogen from the air and replenish the soil when they decompose. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1828 |
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