单词 | Egyptian bean |
释义 | Egyptian bean (once / 656629 pages) n WORD FAMILY Egyptian bean: Egyptian beans USAGE EXAMPLESThey are enclosed in a framework of the flowers of the Egyptian bean, or of the lotus. Inman, Thomas, Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian...(2012) Dioscorides says:—‘The Lotos which grows in Egypt, in the water of the inundated plains, has a stem like that of the Egyptian bean. Anonymous, Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elemen...(2011) These seed cups contain immense seeds, of such shape that the ancient Greek and Latin writers used to speak of them as "Egyptian beans." Badlam, Anna B., The World and Its People: Book VII...(2011) n perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos Syn|Hyper Dolichos lablab, Indian bean, Lablab purpureus, bonavist, hyacinth bean vine a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface |
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