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PHYSOSTIGMA VENENOSUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical African woody vine yielding calabar beans
Synonyms:
calabar-bean vine; Physostigma venenosum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Physostigma venenosum" is a kind of...):
vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)
Meronyms (parts of "Physostigma venenosum"):
calabar bean; ordeal bean (dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine; source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft)
Holonyms ("Physostigma venenosum" is a member of...):
genus Physostigma; Physostigma (African woody vines: calabar beans)