Definition of Goa bean

1. Noun. A tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings; Old World tropics.


2. Noun. Old World tropical bean.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Goa Bean

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go with
go with someone
go with the flow
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go wrong
go yard
goa
goa bean (current term)
goa bean vine
goa powder
goad
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goadsman
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goadsters
goaf
goafs

Literary usage of Goa bean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1862)
"Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, DC., the goa bean, is cultivated in gardens for the table, but not to any great ... In Tamil it is called goa bean; in Hindi, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"goa bean, the edible seed of an Indian plant. St. Ignatius bean, the seeds of the lo- gania family which yield strychnin. Indian bean, the catalpa. ..."

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