bean-caper
English
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editEtymology
editThe flower buds are used as capers.
Noun
editbean-caper (plural bean-capers)
- Any perennial herb of genus Zygophyllum
- especially Zygophyllum fabago (Syrian bean-caper), native to Asia and Eastern Europe, introduced and invasive in arid regions elsewhere.
References
edit- Zygophyllum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “bean-caper”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “bean-caper”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Zygophyllum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Zygophyllum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons