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Noun: ordeal bean
  1. Dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine; source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft
    - calabar bean

Derived forms: ordeal beans

Type of: bean

Part of: calabar-bean vine, Physostigma venenosum

Encyclopedia: Ordeal bean