Definition of Canavalia gladiata

1. Noun. Twining tropical Old World plant bearing long pods usually with red or brown beans; long cultivated in Orient for food.

Exact synonyms: Sword Bean
Group relationships: Canavalia, Genus Canavalia
Generic synonyms: Vine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Canavalia Gladiata

Canangium
Canara
Canarese
Canarian
Canarians
Canaries
Canarsie
Canary
Canary Island hare's foot fern
Canary Islander
Canary Islanders
Canary Islands
Canary wine
Canavalia
Canavalia ensiformis
Canavalia gladiata (current term)
Canavan's disease
Canavan's sclerosis
Canavan-van Bogaert-Bertrand disease
Canberra
Canberran
Canberrans
Cancer
Cancer borealis
Cancer irroratus
Cancer magister
Cancer the Crab
Cancerian
Cancerians
Cancers

Literary usage of Canavalia gladiata

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

1. Punjab Plants: Comprising Botanical and Vernacular Names, and Uses of Most by John Lindsay Stewart (1869)
"Canavalia gladiata. DC. Vernacular. sem. A kind of bean cultivated in gardens, for its unripe pod as well as its seed. CARAGANA PYGM.XA. DC. (VERSICOLOR. ..."

2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1862)
"J Canavalia gladiata, which is only found in a cultivated state, is probably the domesticated form of C. virosa. I have therefore included the native names ..."

3. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Asiatic Society of Bengal, Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India) (1892)
"C. turgida is certainly not identical with C. ensiformis, even if we admit that the Canavalia gladiata, cultivated in the Eastern Hemisphere, is conspecific ..."

4. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke (1864)
"1. Glycine labialis, W. and A.; slender climber; plateaux. 2° N. Nov. ,1862. 1. Canavalia gladiata f DC.; waxy, sweet-scented, rose-pink flowers. ..."

5. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Besides these there are climbing in the forest various Leguminosae, such as Canavalia gladiata, Desmodium adscendens, ..."

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