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Calabar
(gcide) | Calabar \Cal"a*bar\, n.
A district on the west coast of Africa.
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Calabar bean, The of a climbing legumious plant
(Physostigma venenosum), a native of tropical Africa. It
is highly poisonous. It is used to produce contraction of
the pupil of the eye; also in tetanus, neuralgia, and
rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being
used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.
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Arctocebus Calabarensis
(gcide) | Angwantibo \An`gwan*ti"bo\, n. (Zool.)
A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of
Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
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Calabar bean
(gcide) | Calabar \Cal"a*bar\, n.
A district on the west coast of Africa.
[1913 Webster]
Calabar bean, The of a climbing legumious plant
(Physostigma venenosum), a native of tropical Africa. It
is highly poisonous. It is used to produce contraction of
the pupil of the eye; also in tetanus, neuralgia, and
rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being
used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.
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Calabarine
(gcide) | Calabarine \Cal"a*bar*ine\, n. (Chem.)
An alkaloid resembling physostigmine and occurring with it in
the calabar bean.
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arctocebus calabarensis
(wn) | Arctocebus calabarensis
n 1: a kind of lemur [syn: angwantibo, golden potto,
Arctocebus calabarensis] |
calabar bean
(wn) | calabar bean
n 1: dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine;
source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft [syn:
calabar bean, ordeal bean] |
calabar-bean vine
(wn) | calabar-bean vine
n 1: tropical African woody vine yielding calabar beans [syn:
calabar-bean vine, Physostigma venenosum] |
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