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HORSEBEAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States
Synonyms:
horsebean; Jerusalem thorn; Parkinsonia aculeata
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("horsebean" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("horsebean" is a member of...):
genus Parkinsonia; Parkinsonia (small genus of spiny shrubs or small trees)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Seed of the broad-bean plant
Synonyms:
broad bean; fava bean; horsebean
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("horsebean" is a kind of...):
bean (any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans)
Holonyms ("horsebean" is a part of...):
broad-bean; broad-bean plant; broad bean; English bean; European bean; field bean; Vicia faba (Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder)
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