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Definition of Syrian bean caper
1. Noun. Perennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers.
Group relationships: Genus Zygophyllum, Zygophyllum
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Syrian Bean Caper
Literary usage of Syrian bean caper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... Linn., the Syrian bean-caper, with obovate Ifts., copper-yellow fls., deep
strong root and nearly or quite herbaceous top, SW Asia; Z. Morg- sana, ..."
2. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"... for the direction of its fibres, one layer of which often crosses another
diagonally. The commonest species in cultivation is the Syrian Bean-caper or ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... Linn., the Syrian bean-caper, with obovate Ifts., copper-yellow fls., deep
strong root and nearly or quite herbaceous top, SW Asia; Z. Morg- sana, ..."
4. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"... for the direction of its fibres, one layer of which often crosses another
diagonally. The commonest species in cultivation is the Syrian Bean-caper or ..."
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