Lexic.us

Definition of Jack bean

1. Noun. Annual semi-erect bushy plant of tropical South America bearing long pods with white seeds grown especially for forage.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jack Bean

Literary usage of Jack bean

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

1. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller, Kate Grace Barber Winton (1916)
"209) of xthe starch-free embryo, are the important features. BIBLIOGRAPHY. See General Bibliography, pp. 671-674; Moeller (29). jack bean. ..."

2. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"The jack bean is cultivated in the West Indies, southern United States, Java, Hawaii, ... The jack bean is particularly well favored for growth in tropical ..."

3. Folk-tales of Andros Island, Bahamas by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1918)
"jack bean.* His fader died an' lef a cow. Dey had dis cow. De mother was compelled to sell it by bein' poorer. So one day more than all, a man come by, ..."

4. Annual Report by Guam Agricultural Experiment Station (1918)
"They not only cover the ground more completely than the jack bean but have a ... The jack bean matures earlier than the velvet bean and shades the ground ..."

5. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1920)
""jack bean" у "sword bean" o sean los frijoles "cumali. ... Analyses of the "Jack bean," Canavalia ensiformis, and "sword bean," Canavalin ..."

6. Subtropical Vegetable-gardening by Peter Henry Rolfs (1916)
"The young pods of the jack bean, when less than six inches long, are used as string beans, in Japan, Demerara, and elsewhere. ..."

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