good morrow

/ɡʊd ˈmɒɹəʊ/

From Middle English good morow, good morwe.

Among the plants and shrubs that I saw, and could form any knowledge of, were the sisban, or large thorny sensitive plant, sometimes called the good-morrow, these are abundant among the underwoods.

1797, Joseph Hawkins of New York, A history of a voyage to the coast of Africa: and travels into the interior of that country, [A book https://www.jstor.org/stable/3172055] questioned to be a hoax, first Edition in Philadelphia page 133 and two editions in Troy by Luther Pratt page 133:


corkwood

Any of numerous plants with bark or wood resembling cork, of diverse orders:

Annona glabra, a plant found in the West Indies.

Leitneria floridana, a species found in southeastern North America.


jichimu

He has a set of four faux-bamboo drum stools made of jichimu, a Chinese hardwood.

2008 March 14, Wendy Moonan, “Rare Works by Eminent Britons”, in New York Times:

A Chinese hardwood with a grain that resembles a bird's feathers.


padauk

en-noun

padauk (usually uncountable, plural padauks)

Any of the trees of the pantropical genus Pterocarpus.


shagbark

Trees such as the pin oak, the shagbark hickory, the linden, and the sugar maple are the arboreal equivalent of the high school student council.

1990 January 19, James Krohe Jr., “Green Streets”, in Chicago Reader:

They thought he was strong, tough, and resilient--just like the wood of the shagbark hickory tree, which is used to make athletic equipment today.

1997 November 28, Cara Jepsen, “Days of the Week”, in Chicago Reader:

The face of the country is exceedingly beautiful, the soil fertile, and bearing oaks and shagbark hickory.

1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers:

A North-American hickory (Carya ovata) that has shaggy bark in mature trees; shagbark hickory


sapan

sapan (usually uncountable, plural sapans)

Biancaea sappan
Biancaea sappan#Translingual

Caesalpinia sappan
Caesalpinia sappan#Translingual

Wood of a timber tree of species Biancaea sappan (syn. Caesalpinia sappan) that also produces a red dye.


lablab

Any of the twining leguminous plants related to the bean, especially the hyacinth bean.


honeybush

List of plants known as honeybush
honeybush

From honey + bush; for the South African plant a calque from Afrikaans heuningbos (heuning + bos). Compare English borrowing from Afrikaans rooibos.

Any of several not closely related shrubs that have features reminiscent of honey, of species:

Cuttsia viburnea (native elderberry), of rainforests in New South Wales and Queensland in Australia.


rubywood

(archaic) red sandalwood, Pterocarpus santalinus


kiabooca

Borrowed from Malay kayu buku (literally “knot/joint wood”).

bor

Pterocarpus indicus
Pterocarpus indicus#Translingual

(archaic) Amboyna wood, the reddish wood taken from burls of Pterocarpus indicus.


beggarweed

en-noun

beggarweed (usually uncountable, plural beggarweeds)

A type of plant, Desmodium incanum, native to Central and South America.


gonakie

An African timber tree, Vachellia nilotica subsp. adstringens, formerly Acacia adansonii.


sweetroot

sweetroot (countable and uncountable, plural sweetroots)

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909


water locust

Gleditsia aquatica, a tree found in swamps.


monkeypod

Tears filled the eyes of some of the people heading to work that morning who heard the strains of music in the deposed queen's harden, among its tamarind and monkeypod trees.

2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 231:

Albizia saman
Albizia saman#Translingual

Albizia saman, a flowering tree in the pea family, native to the neotropics.

Couroupita nicaraguarensis (syn. Lecythis nicaraguarensis) (coco de mono)

Pithecellobium dulce
Pithecellobium dulce#Translingual


melilot

melilot (countable and uncountable, plural melilots)

From Latin melilōtos, from Ancient Greek μελίλωτος (melílōtos), from μέλι (méli, “honey”) + λωτός (lōtós, “lotus”); later reinforced by Old French mellilote.

Melilot boiled in wine and applied mollifies all hard tumours and inflammations that happen in the eyes or other parts of the body, as the fundament or privy parts of man or woman.

1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 187:

A fragrant plant of the genus Melilotus, often having small yellow or white flowers.


restharrow

/ˈɹɛsthaɹəʊ/

From rest + harrow, from the idea that the plant's tough roots would stop a harrow (agricultural implement used to break up soil).

Common Restharrow rises up with diverse rough, woody twigs, half a yard or a yard high, set at the joints without order [...].

1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 238:

Any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis, especially Ononis repens, which has pink flowers.

athje

any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis


nicker tree

The plant (genus Caesalpinia) producing nicker nuts.


flamboyer

Borrowed from French flamboyer (“to be bright”).

(archaic) Any of various trees in the East and West Indies with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinieae, especially of Delonix and Caesalpinia, all of which were formerly in the obsolete genus Poinciana.


rattlebox

Senna covesii, a perennial subshrub native to the United States and Mexico.


niopo

A kind of snuff prepared by some indigenous peoples of Venezuela and Colombia, from the roasted seeds of a leguminous tree, Anadenanthera peregrina.


noonflower

For isolated shrubs , and not too many at that, the lack of all appearance of striving after there would be the spreading noonflower, bauhinia, dracaumas with their warm-hued leaves, […]

1916, “The Homestead (So. Africa)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), numbers 23-48, page 7:

Referring to various species of flowers.


soldierwood

From soldier + wood; plants of species Colubrina elliptica make a sound like that of musket fire when they disperse their peppercorn-size seeds.

A showy leguminous plant (Calliandra purpurea) of the West Indies, whose flowers have long tassels of purple stamens.


agust

Sesbania grandiflora
Sesbania grandiflora#Translingual


amorpha

From the genus name, Amorpha, from Ancient Greek ἄμορφος (ámorphos, “shapeless, deformed”), because the flowers have only one petal rather than the three of other genera in the subfamily Faboideae.

der

Billowy bays of grass ever rolling in shadow and sunshine,
Bright with luxuriant clusters of roses and purple amorphas

1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):

Any species of the genus Amorpha of leguminous shrubs.


wallaba

The wild red sage is also their favourite shrub, and they buzz like bees round the blossom of the wallaba tree.

1836, Charles Waterton, Wanderings in South America:

A leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves, reddish-brown wood, and clusters of red flowers.


horsewood

A West Indian mimosoid tree, Zygia latifolia, with showy crimson blossoms.


earthpea

Arachis hypogaea
Arachis hypogaea#Translingual


cockshead

en-noun

cockshead (countable and uncountable, plural cocksheads)

A leguminous herb, Onobrychis caput-galli, with small spiny-crested pods.


alsike

alsike (countable and uncountable, plural alsikes)

The next best growth was shown by the alsikes and N.Z. white clovers. Only about a third of the varieties were significantly affected by phosphate levels.

1974, New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 2, number 3, page 256:

Trifolium hybridum, a species of clover with pinkish or white flowers.


trifoly

trifoly (countable and uncountable, plural trifolies)

From Latin trifolium. See trifoliate, trefoil.

Shee was crowned with a chaplet of trifoly, to expreſſe readineſſe, and openneſſe euery way; […]

1604 March 25 (first performance; Gregorian calendar; published 1604), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Part of the Kings Entertainment in Passing to His Coronation [The Coronation Triumph]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, page 846:


locust tree

Named after the "locusts" said to have been eaten by John the Baptist, based on the theory that they were really carob pods.

Gleditsia triacanthos
Gleditsia triacanthos#Translingual

Any of a number of similar looking trees in the genera Gleditsia and Robinia.

A honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos), a leguminous tree with pods having a sweet, edible pulp.


mile-a-minute

Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.


barwood

barwood (countable and uncountable, plural barwoods)

From bar + wood, since it was imported from Africa in bars.

(countable) A tree of species Pterocarpus erinaceus.


rounceval

From the gigantic bones shown at Roncesvalles, and alleged to be those of old heroes.

The Rouncefall, great Beanes, and early ripening Peason

1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 20 p. 12:


calavance

calavance (countable and uncountable, plural calavances)

Lablab purpureus
Lablab purpureus#Translingual

Any bean, but especially the hyacinth bean (Lablab purpureus).


chich

From French chiche, pois chiche (“a dwarf pea”), from Latin cicer (“the chickpea”).


breadroot

breadroot (countable and uncountable, plural breadroots)

The edible root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta).


amber tree

Hymenaea verrucosa (Fabaceae), a New World tree producing copal.


bean trefoil

Anagyris foetida, a leguminous shrub of southern Europe with trifoliate leaves.


nicker nut

(archaic) The rounded seed of the nicker tree.


erythrina

(botany) Any of the genus Erythrina of leguminous flowering plants; a coral tree.


algarovilla

Agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Chloroleucon mangense), formerly used for tanning leather and as a dye.


bauhinia

Our camp was about four miles above the furthest point attained by Captain Stokes, and consequently in Beagle Valley which we had traversed for more than thirty miles, the greater part of which was well grassed and openly wooded with box, bauhinia, and acacia.

1884, A C, F T Gregory, Journals of Australian Explorations:

I may mention a few common trees which I have observed today--first, on the edges of the river fine large tea-trees, with foliage (melaleuca) like the drooping willow; beautiful Leichhardt-trees, pandanus, and cabbage-palm-trees: on the banks and scattered over the plain, stunted box, bauhinia, white cedar, and bloodwood; with the pandanus I got too intimately acquainted for, while with merely a shirt upon me, leading a restive horse across the river, I fell back and, rolling, got its thorns into all parts of my body.

1862, William Landsborough, Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria:

"The insect (and its secretion) on the leaves of the bauhinia, and which is eaten by the Africans, proves to be a species of Psylla, a genus of small, very active Homoptera, of which we have one very common species in the box; but our species, Psylla buxi, emits its secretion in the shape of very long, white, cotton-like filaments.

1873, David Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa:

Any of flowering plants of the Bauhinia genus, some of which are known as orchid trees.

മന്ദാരം

any flowering plant of the Bauhinia genus


cytisus

From Ancient Greek κύτισος (kútisos), of unknown origin.

The goats eat cytisus and myrtle on the shore; a whole flock gathered round me as I sat beneath a tuft of golden green euphorbia the other day, and nibbled bread from my hands.

1914, John Symonds, Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete:

His head leaning back on the cushions, his arms folded across his breast, Lavretsky gazed at the furrowed plains which opened fanwise before him, at the cytisus shrubs, at the crows and rooks which looked sideways at the passing carriage with dull suspicion, at the long ridges planted with mugwort, wormwood, and mountain ash.

The humming birds, which swarmed round the flowering cytisus and the beautiful water-fall, once more delighted the eye and the ear.

1827, George Tucker, A Voyage to the Moon:

Any flowering plant in the genus Cytisus.


tephrosia

Though the tephrosia is a powerful agent, and, if carried too far beyond the antagonistic action of the poison, is, I presume, not entirely without danger, I have never known any bad symptoms to arise from its use.

1866, American Journal of Pharmacy and the Sciences Supporting Public Health:

(botany) Any of the genus Tephrosia of leguminous shrubby plants and herbs.


esparcet

From French esparcet, esparcette, éparcet, from Spanish esparceta, esparcilla.

(obsolete) common sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa)


woad-waxen

The woad waxen (Genista tinctoria), common enough near Salem, is seldom found inland, and the same holds good for the barberry and privet, which grow so abundantly near the coast and which have probably been introduced for two hundred years.

1898, Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, Volume 45, Part 1897, page 273:

[…]but after a time he left the sages, and leaped above the mayweeds, the felt-wyrts, the savouries, and the woad-waxens.

1941, Eva Roe Gaggin, Down Ryton Water, published 1998, page 24:

Woad-waxen, which in modern English is wax-weed, was one of the plants of many virtues brought by the earliest Pilgrims,[…].

1981, S. N. F. Sanford, Country Herbs, page 20:

Genista tinctoria
Genista tinctoria#Translingual

The leguminous plant Genista tinctoria, native to Europe.


tickseed

From tick + seed, from tick (“the insect”).

A seed or fruit resembling a tick in shape, or in clinging to the skin or hair/fur.

A plant producing such seed or fruit, such as those in the genera:


rattlewort

From Middle English *ratelwort (attested only as Middle English ratele), from Old English hrætelwyrt (“rattlewort”), equivalent to rattle + wort (“plant, herb”).


rattleweed

Baptisia arachnifera, an endangered legume native to the United States.

Clematis fremontii, a flowering plant in the buttercup family found in the United States.

Senna covesii, a perennial subshrub native to the United States and Mexico.


sicklewort

A plant of the genus Coronilla (especially, Coronilla scorpioides), with curved pods.

Prunella vulgaris
Prunella vulgaris#Translingual


phasel

From Latin phaselus, phaseolus, from Ancient Greek φάσηλος (phásēlos, “a kind of bean”). Compare French phaséole, faséole, English fesels.

der

(obsolete) The French bean, or kidney bean.


sissoo

en-noun

sissoo (countable and uncountable, plural sissoos)

From Hindi [Term?] / Urdu [Term?]. Doublet of shisham.

There was a huge tree near Minoti's house. It was a Sissoo tree.

2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:

Dalbergia sissoo
Dalbergia sissoo#Translingual

A leguminous tree (Dalbergia sissoo) of northern India.


flower-fence

So named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies.

Barbadoes flower-fence. Parkinsonia and Poinciana.

1858, William Baird, The Student's Natural History:

Caesalpinia pulcherrima
Caesalpinia pulcherrima#Translingual

A tropical leguminous bush (Caesalpinia pulcherrima, syn. Poinciana pulcherrima) with prickly branches and showy yellow or red flowers.


hognut

(US) A pignut or hickory tree (Carya glabra of family Juglandaceae).


adragant

From French, a corruption of tragacanth. Doublet of tragacanth.

From the second Sort Monsieur Tournefort says, the Gum Adragant or Dragon is produced in Crete; of which he gives the following Relation in his Voyage to the Levant :
“We had (says he) the Satisfaction
“of fully observing the Gum
“Adragant […]

1741, Philip Miller, The Gardener's Dictionary:

3. Gum adragant.—The gum adragant […] flows from the adragant of Crete, a small shrub […]

1800, Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal, translated by W. Nicholson, Elements of Chemistry ... Translated from the French. The third edition, page 39:

Make a color composed of brown red, and a little flat, or Venetian lake, previously grinded with gum adragant. Then, with a largish brush, take of that color and asperse your oiled marble with it, by striking the handle of the brush on your wrist, ...

1795, American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection, One Thousand Valuable Secrets, in the Elegant and Useful Arts: Collected from the Practice of the Best Artists and Containing an Account of the Various Methods, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN:


cacoon

The bean-like seed of a tropical vine (Entada rheedei), used as a hallucinogen and in traditional medicine, and made into jewelry.


grenadilla

grenadilla (countable and uncountable, plural grenadillas)

On these plains, too, you will find the bushy oleander, many varieties of Jerusalem thorn and African rose, the bright scarlet of the cordium, bowers of jessamine, vines of grenadilla, and the silver and silky leaves of the portlandia.

1852, Mrs. David Osborne, The World of Waters:

African blackwood, a tree of species Dalbergia melanoxylon, found in Africa, valued for its timber.


bonduc

From French bonduc, from Arabic بُنْدُق (bunduq, “hazelnut, pebble, bullet”), from Middle Persian 𐭐𐭍𐭃𐭊 (pondik, “hazelnut”), from Ancient Greek [κάρυον] Ποντικόν (Pontikón, “Pontic nut”), q.v. Doublet of Pontic and bundook.


sesban

Borrowed from French sesban, from Arabic سَيْسَبَان (saysabān).

The sesban belongs to the pulse family which contains a number of poisonous plants like the lupine, rattle-box loco weed, etc.

1919, Veterinary Medicine, volume 14, page 246:

A leguminous shrub (Sesbania aculeata or others of the genus Sesbania) which furnishes a fiber used for making ropes.


Calabar bean

From its ancient use in trial by ordeal in the Calabar region of Nigeria.

A seed of a tropical leguminous plant of species Physostigma venenosum of tropical Africa, poisonous to humans.


ordeal bean

It was formerly used by the natives in trials for witchcraft.


Lima wood

The handsome dark wood of the South American tree Caesalpinia echinata.


algaroba

Borrowed from Spanish algarroba, from Andalusian Arabic الخَرُّوبَة (al-ḵarrūba), from Arabic خَرُّوب (ḵarrūb, “carob”).

The honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Aires.


aspalathus

From Latin aspalathus, from Ancient Greek ἀσπάλαθος (aspálathos).

Any of the genus Aspalathus of flowering plants.


sassy bark

The bark of a West African leguminous tree (Erythrophleum suaveolens), used by the natives as an ordeal poison in a process called sassywood, and also medicinally.


cammock

en-noun

cammock (countable and uncountable, plural cammocks)

From Middle English cammok (“Ononis repens; Peucedanum officinale; Rhamnus cathartica”), from Old English cammoc.

inh

Scandix pecten-veneris
Scandix pecten-veneris#Translingual


suicide tree

(botany) Cerbera odollam, a tree native to India and other parts of Southern Asia, yielding a potent poison.


bean sprout

(chiefly in the plural) A sprout of any of several other species of bean


sea-purse

Named because it is shaped like a small purse.

The egg case of skate, shark or ratfish; a mermaid's purse.


ayocote

From Spanish ayocote, from Nahuatl ayocotl.

Phaseolus coccineus
Phaseolus coccineus#Translingual


fabacean

Of or pertaining to the family Fabaceae.


harefoot

From Middle English hare-fot, equivalent to hare + foot. Compare Old English haran hiġe (“hare's-foot (plant)”).

cog

A long, narrow foot, carried (that is, produced or extending) forward, as in dogs.


Campeachy wood

en-noun

Campeachy wood (countable and uncountable, plural Campeachy woods)

First exported from Campeche in Yucatan.


Indian potato

Any of several kinds of North American plants with edible, starchy bulbs or other underground structures, such as mariposa lilies, groundnuts, etc., especially

Apios americana (American potato-bean), a terrestrial plant native to eastern North America;

Orogenia spp. (now in Lomatium), a terrestrial plant native to western North America;

Sagittaria latifolia (broadleaf arrowhead, duck potato), an aquatic plant native to North and South America.


crowtoe

With yelowish marygold , she the tender Crowtoe bedecketh

1812, Samuel Egerton Brydges, Sir Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood, The British Bibliographer, volume 2:

Lotus corniculatus
Lotus corniculatus#Translingual

A perennial herbaceous plant, Lotus corniculatus, of temperate Eurasia and northern Africa.


juwansa

camelthorn (Vachellia eriloba, formerly Acacia erioloba)


papilionoid

(botany) Any member of subfamily Papilionoideae of peas and other legumes.


poonga oil

A kind of oil used in India for lamps, and for boiling with dammara for pitching vessels. It is pressed from the seeds of a leguminous tree (Millettia pinnata).


genista

(botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Genista.


boree

(Australia) Any of various species of wattle tree (genus Acacia), especially Acacia pendula and Acacia glaucescens.


coojong

Acacia saligna, an Australian shrub wattle


mulga apple

A gall on the mulga tree Acacia aneura, said to taste like an apple.


Hattie leaf

A leaf of Bauhinia monandra, traditionally dried and painted with designs on Pitcairn Island.


acapu

acapu (countable and uncountable, plural acapus)

From Brazilian Portuguese acapu, from Old Tupi.

Any of several tropical New World trees in:


courbaril

From French courbaril, from a South American word.

Hymenaea courbaril
Hymenaea courbaril#Translingual

Hymenaea courbaril, a South American tree.


chana dal

From Hindi चना दाल (canā dāl). See chana + dal.

An Indian dish of chickpeas cooked with onion, garlic, tomatoes and spices.


sunn

An East Indian leguminous plant of species Crotalaria juncea, yielding a fiber.


cassie

cassie (countable and uncountable, plural cassies)

Vachellia farnesiana
Vachellia farnesiana#Translingual

(US) A thorny shrub with fragrant yellow flowers, Vachellia farnesiana; the needle bush.


parrot's bill

From the resemblance of its curved superior petal to a parrot's bill.

Two similar plants with showy flowers, the glory pea.


hart's clover

(probably, dated) melilot; sweet clover (Melilotus spp.)


prairie turnip

Psoralea esculenta, a herbaceous perennial native to central North America.


bastard umbrella thorn

bastard umbrella thorn (plural bastard umbrella thorns)


huajillo

From Spanish guajillo, from Michoacán Nahuatl huāxin plus -illo. Cognate with English guajillo.

The shrub Senegalia berlandieri, formerly Acacia berlandieri.


guajillo

A huajillo, a shrub of species Senegalia berlandieri (syn. Acacia berlandieri).


nitta

From Fula nete, and its source, Mandingo nɛtɛ.

These are the hard times, the long lingering days before the rains. Udders dry, grain reserves shot – even the insipid nitta pods in short supply.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 65:

Parkia biglobosa
Parkia biglobosa#Translingual

A tropical tree of the genus Parkia, having edible pods and seeds, especially Parkia filicoidea or Parkia biglobosa.


cativo

Thrusting up into the canopy, competing for sunlight with the algarrobo, grew the cativo tree, whose modern descendants grow to 120 feet.

1999, George O. Poinar, The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World, page 15:

Prioria copaifera, a flowering tree of Central and South America.


caragana

/ˌkæɹəˈɡɑːnə/

/ˌkɑːɹəˈɡɑːnə/

Borrowed from translingual Caragana, from a Turkic language, perhaps ultimately Mongolic. Compare Kazakh қараған (qarağan), Mongolian харгана (xargana).

Any of several shrubs or small trees, of the genus Caragana, that often have golden flowers


catclaw

From cat + claw, because its branches bear many small hooks which resemble cats' claws.

An acacia, specifically Acacia greggii, now Senegalia greggii, native to most of the border region of the US and Mexico.


Puy lentil

Combined with the high altitude of the valley, this creates the perfect conditions to grow the delicate Puy lentil. Due to these unique growing conditions, the lentil has its own protected designation of origin status – which means that, to use the name ‘Puy lentil’, the product must be grown without any pesticides or irrigation and harvested and packaged in the region of Puy.

2018, Merchant Gourmet, The Pulses & Grains Cookbook: Deliciously nutritious recipes for every day, with lentils, grains, seeds and chestnuts, Hardie Grant Publishing, →ISBN:

A green lentil of the variety Lens esculenta puyensis.


barbasco

barbasco (countable and uncountable, plural barbascos)

From American Spanish barbasco, perhaps alteration of Spanish verbasco, varbasco (“mullein”), from Latin verbascum.

A plant (Lonchocarpus urucu, now Deguelia rufescens var. urucu) native to parts of northern South America used as a poison for fishing and an insecticide.


blue fenugreek

Trigonella caerulea, a variety of fenugreek with blue flowers.


round-headed bush clover

round-headed bush clover (usually uncountable, plural round-headed bush clovers)

Lespedeza capitata
Lespedeza capitata#Translingual

Lespedeza capitata, a tall, deep-rooting perennial herb native to eastern North America.


bush clover

bush clover (usually uncountable, plural bush clovers)


eastern redbud

eastern redbud (countable and uncountable, plural eastern redbuds)

Cercis canadensis
Cercis canadensis#Translingual

Cercis canadensis, a tree native to the southeastern, midwestern, and south central United States and parts of northern Mexico.


Bambara groundnut

Bambara groundnut (plural Bambara groundnuts)

The edible seed of an African plant of species Vigna subterranea, which produces its seeds underground, like peanuts.


Tahitian chestnut

Tahitian chestnut (plural Tahitian chestnuts)

A tropical tree native from Malaysia across the southern Pacific (Inocarpus fagifer).


gallito

A flowering tree in the legume family Fabaceae, of species (Erythrina fusca).


wild indigo

The American herb Baptisia tinctoria, which yields a poor quality of indigo, as do several other species of the same genus.


Chinese indigo

Isatis tinctoria
Isatis tinctoria#Translingual

Dyer's woad (Isatis tinctoria, syn. Isatis indigotica).


tallow tree

Various African trees in the genus Allanblackia.


European redbud

European redbud (plural European redbuds)


mpingo

Dalbergia melanoxylon, a small African tree in the family Fabaceae.


rattlepod

Any of various plants, including Senna covesii and species of Crotalaria and Astragalus, whose seeds rattle in the pod when shaken.


sweetvetch

In general aspect of foliage and flowers, the sweetvetches resemble the milkvetches and locoweeds. The short wing petals and abruptly angled keel petals are diagnostic features which distinguish the sweetvetches in flower.

1990, Stanley L. Welsh, David B. Williams, Grand Views of Canyon Country: A Driving Guide, page 30:

In this environment, glacier lily (Erythronium grandiflorum) bulbs (Butler 1992; and yellow sweetvetch (Hedysarum sulphurescens) roots are major food sources.

1995, David R. Butler, Zoogeomorphology: Animals as Geomorphic Agents, page 68:

There, where snow has melted away from last year's brown, matted grasses, their sensitive noses sniff out the odour of sweetvetch roots, glacier lily bulbs and other buried treasures.

2013, Kevin Van Tighem, Bears: Without Fear, page 204:

Any of the flowering plants of genus Hedysarum.


dead finish

Acacia tetragonophylla, an Australian tree.


Jerusalem thorn

Jerusalem thorn (plural Jerusalem thorns)

Paliurus spina-christi
Paliurus spina-christi#Translingual

The shrub Paliurus spina-christi, native to the Eastern Hemisphere.


birdsfoot trefoil

birdsfoot trefoil (plural birdsfoot trefoils)

Plants of certan species of genus Lotus, especially common birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), a flowering plant native to grassland in Eurasia and North Africa.


bayag-kambing

A prickly shrub of species Caesalpinia crista (syn. Guilandina crista) in the Fabaceae family, with loosely spreading or climbing branches and bipinnate, prickly leaves.


cat's claw

Any of several species of plant having parts resembling the claw of a cat.

Senegalia greggii, formerly Acacia greggii, a tree species native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico

Mimosa nuttallii (formerly Schrankia nuttalli), a plant native to the Midwestern United States


birdsfoot

From bird + -s- + foot, from the short, claw-like point on the pod.

Any of various flowering plants in the genus Ornithopus.


kidneywood

Any of the genus Eysenhardtia of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae.


glory pea

Either of two similar leguminous plants with showy scarlet or crimson flowers, both of Australia and New Zealand.

Sturt's desert pea (Swainsona formosa syn. Clianthus dampieri)


dyer's broom

dyer's broom (usually uncountable, plural dyer's brooms)

A species of broom, Genista tinctoria, used for dyeing yellow.


telegraph plant

telegraph plant (plural telegraph plants)

So called because the jerking motions of the leaves are thought to resemble signalling.

Codariocalyx motorius, a tropical Asian shrub, one of the few plants capable of rapid movement.


hyacinth bean

A climbing leguminous plant (Lablab purpureus), with white or dark purple flowers, native to Africa, widely cultivated in the tropics.

perhaps extending its names in a generic fashion.

гиаци́нтовые бобы́

in botanical jargon; only grown in Transcaucasia and there allegedly called by the vulgar just фасо́ль (fasólʹ)


Scotch broom

A plant of the species Cytisus scoparius.


pea bean

Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgaris#Translingual

Various varieties of Phaseolus vulgaris (common beans that can be eaten as string beans or cooked from dried beans).

A very small and highly esteemed variety of the edible white bean.

A bicoloured (red-brown and white) bean found in Britain.

Vigna unguiculata
Vigna unguiculata#Translingual


milk pea

Any of the genus Galactia of leguminous and, usually, twining plants.


golden shower tree

golden shower tree (plural golden shower trees)

Cassia fistula
Cassia fistula#Translingual

Cassia fistula, a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae.


multiflora bean

multiflora bean (plural multiflora beans)


goat's rue

Certain herbaceous plants in the family Fabaceae:

Tephrosia virginiana (catgut, devil's shoestring), native to the United States.


partridge pea

Chamaecrista fasciculata, an annual legume with yellow flowers, native to most of the eastern United States.


umbrella tree

An umbrella magnolia (Magnolia tripetala).

An octopus tree (Schefflera actinophylla).

Terminalia catappa
Terminalia catappa#Translingual

Virtually all the trees in the home range of the baboons are acacias of just two species: the fever tree, Acacia xanthophloea (18.4% of feeding bouts), and, on somewhat higher, drier ground, the umbrella tree, A. tortilis (5.0%).

1998, Stuart A. Altmann, “Dietary Diversity”, in Foraging for Survival: Yearling Baboons in Africa, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 76:


needle furze

Genista anglica, a shrubby flowering plant of the family Fabaceae.


leadplant

From lead + plant; its presence was supposed to indicate lead ore.

Amorpha canescens, a tall deciduous shrub in the pea family, native to North America. It has very small purple flowers grouped in racemes.


salt tree

Halimodendron halodendron, a deciduous spiny shrub native to Russia and southern Asia.


cocuswood

The dense hardwood of Brya ebenus, a Caribbean flowering tree.


Spanish broom

Spanish broom (countable and uncountable, plural Spanish brooms)

Spartium junceum
Spartium junceum#Translingual

Spartium junceum, a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the Mediterranean, with many flexible rush-like twigs.


bladder senna

The bladder-sena, (Colutea), and bladder-nut (Staphylæa) have their seed-vessels distended with air […].

1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 34:

Colutea arborescens
Colutea arborescens#Translingual

Colutea arborescens, a leguminous shrub.


rose-acacia

A shrub of species Robinia hispida, in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to the southeastern United States.


balsam of Peru

It was long supposed to be a product of Peru.

A sweet-smelling balsam derived from a tree of the genus Myroxylon, used as a flavoring, as a fragrance, and in pharmaceuticals.


indigo bush

A shrub of any of several genera in the Fabaceae family, including:


heath pea

Lathyrus linifolius, a species of pea, whose tubers were once used as an appetite suppressant.


silverbush

Any of several bushes with a silvery appearance.

Argythamnia spp., found from Texas to Colombia

Convolvulus cneorum, of the Mediterranean

Sophora tomentosa subsp. australis, of Australia


screwbean

Prosopis pubescens, a flowering shrub or small tree in the pea family, native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.


gum butea

A gum yielded by Indian plants in the genus Butea, used in tanning and in precipitating indigo.


beach pea

Lathyrus japonicus (sea pea, circumpolar pea, sea vetchling), a legume native to temperate coastal areas of Asia, Europe, and North and South America.


butterfly pea

Any of genus Centrosema of American vines.


camelthorn

From Dutch kameeldoorn, Afrikaans kameeldoring. Equivalent to camel + thorn.

Alhagi, a genus of shrubs native to northern Africa and Asia Minor.


bacon and eggs

birdsfoot trefoil
birdsfoot trefoil#English


devil's claw

Anything considered ugly or potentially harmful resembling a claw in appearance or behavior:

Harpagophytum spp., especially Harpagophytum procumbens, native to South Africa.

Proboscidea spp. (mule grab, unicorn plant)

Senegalia greggii (catclaw acacia, formerly Acacia greggii)


false blue indigo

false blue indigo (countable and uncountable, plural false blue indigos)

Baptisia australis, native to central and eastern North America.


chole

(Indian cooking) Chickpeas, or a curry consisting mainly of chickpeas.


cohoba

A traditional Taino ceremony in which the ground seeds of the cojóbana tree were inhaled in a special pipe, producing a psychedelic effect.


thornless honey locust

thornless honey locust (plural thornless honey locusts)

Gleditsia triacanthos
Gleditsia triacanthos#Translingual

Cultivars of the normally heavily thorned honey locust tree (Gleditsia triacanthos), known variously as Gleditsia triacanthos subsp. inermis (subspecies), Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis (variety), or Gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis (form).


African mahogany

African mahogany (usually uncountable, plural African mahoganies)

An African tree with wood resembling mahogany, as from:

Genus Afzelia of the family Fabaceae (legumes), especially Afzelia africana.


ice-cream bean

Inga edulis, a sweet South American fruit used in making cachiri.


cow vetch

cow vetch (countable and uncountable, plural cow vetches)

A plant of species Vicia cracca, native to Europe and Asia.


eggs and bacon

common birdsfoot trefoil, (Lotus corniculatus)


algarrobilla

From Spanish algarrobilla, diminutive of algarrobo (“carob”).

Astringent resinous husks and seeds of several species of leguminous trees or shrubs of South America, which are an article of commerce for their value in tanning and dyeing

(by transfer) Shrubs and trees that yield this product, especially:


jumbie bead

Of jumbie + bead. The initial portion is apparently from Kongo zumbi (“fetish, spirit”) or Kimbundu nzumbi (“god”). Compare zombie.

“Dat too much. You pick de jumbie bead by de wayside, and run piece o’ string through dem, an’ you chargin’ me four dallaz? You got to be crims-crams. You crims-crams?” I asked.

2007, Sislyn Peters, Undocumented Citizen, page 179:

In the Eastern Caribbean, Abrus seeds (Jumbie beads, John Crow beads in Jamaica) are made into necklaces and bracelets to serve as protection against Jumbies and malevolent forces.

2012, Robert Wyndham Nicholls, The Jumbies’ Playing Ground, page 12:

Abrus precatorius
Abrus precatorius#Translingual

A jequirity bean, the seed of the jequirity plant (Abrus precatorius) used in beadwork or making percussion instruments.


mesquite bean

They caught fish from the river and snared a few rabbits in the desert, but lived mainly on mesquite beans, the hearts of yucca plants, and the fruits of the cactus

1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 27:


Madeira wood

A West Indian leguminous tree (Lysiloma latisiliquum) whose wood is used for boat trimming.


palo blanco

From Spanish, literally "white stake" or "white pole".

A Mexican mimosaceous tree (Lysiloma candidum) whose bark is used in tanning.


coumarou

From Old Tupi kumarú (“tree”), with the spelling coming through French coumarou.

Dipteryx odorata
Dipteryx odorata#Translingual

The tree Dipteryx odorata, which bears the tonka bean.


Egyptian clover

Trifolium alexandrinum, an annual clover cultivated mostly in irrigated subtropical regions.


berseem

berseem (countable and uncountable, plural berseems)


wait-a-while

Originally after South African Dutch wacht-en-beetje; compare wait-a-bit.

In the new clearing by the creek where he had felled most of the big stuff, she attacked the landscape with anger, grubbing out the wait-a-while and bush-sword that was still guzzling round the stumps.

1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 136:

(Australia) Any of several thorny Australian vines or shrubs which impede passage, especially Acacia cuspidifolia of Western Australia, Smilax australis of eastern Australia and the Northern Territory, and lawyer vine.


deervetch

New World legumes in genera in tribe Loteae, family Fabaceae.

Aeschynomene, especially Aeschynomene virginica.


candle tree

Senna alata, of the family Fabaceae, native to Mexico.


jatoba

jatoba (countable and uncountable, plural jatobas)

Hymenaea courbaril
Hymenaea courbaril#Translingual

Courbaril, a South American tree, Hymenaea courbaril


asparagus pea

A legume, Lotus tetragonolobus (synonym Tetragonolobus purpureus), with bright red flowers and edible seedpods that superficially resemble those of the winged bean.


miombo

miombo (countable and uncountable, plural miombos)

Borrowed from Bemba miombo, plural of muombo.

(countable) Any tree of the genus Brachystegia, native to tropical Africa


sweet clover

sweet clover (usually uncountable, plural sweet clovers)

A plant of any species in the genus Melilotus.


mimosoid

A comparison of the mimosoid nodulating strains reveals that UYPR1.413 has the largest genome (10.4 Mbp), with the highest KOG count (1670) and the lowest GC (65.28 %) percentage in this group.

2015 June 4, Sofie E De Meyer et al., “High-quality permanent draft genome sequence of the Parapiptadenia rigida-nodulating Burkholderia sp. strain UYPR1.413”, in Standards in Genomic Sciences, volume 10, →DOI:

Any plant of the leguminous subfamily Mimosoideae


burclover

burclover (countable and uncountable, plural burclovers)

Any of various European and North African herbs of the genus Medicago.


ambatch

ambatch (usually uncountable, plural ambatches)

Likely borrowed from an Ethiopian language.

A large shrub or small tree found in and around water in the African tropics, Aeschynomene elaphroxylon, formerly used to make rafts due to its extremely lightweight wood.


Enola bean

Named after the wife of the man who patented it in 1999.


kakabeak

From kaka + beak, from the resemblance to the beak of the bird.

(New Zealand) Any of various flowering plants in the genus Clianthus.


crazyweed

crazyweed (countable and uncountable, plural crazyweeds)


charro bean

From Spanish charro (“cowboy”) (or English charro, from that Spanish word), due to the association of the beans and of charro bean soup with Mexican cowboys.

A pinto bean, as used in Mexican cooking, especially as used to make charro bean soup (a hearty, spicy, smoky soup flavoured with bacon).


ipil

A Philippine and Pacific island tree (Intsia bijuga) yielding a valuable brown dye and having a very hard and durable dark wood.


three sisters

A calque from an Iroquoian language, compare Mohawk áhsen nikontatenò:sen, Oneida áshʌnaɂtekutahnú·tele, and Onondaga ahsę́ naˀdegųdęhnų́·dæ·ˀ.
First attested in 1850 in the context of Iroquoian mythology (see quote below). Use in reference to the plants themselves first attested in the 1890s (see also below).

One beautiful idea relates to the corn, beans and squashes, all indigenous plants which are called three sisters as well as their life or supporters. The thought is a happy one, for they grow together, and were always important in Indian life.

[1892, William M. Beauchamp, “Iroquois Stories”, in The Iroquois Trail, or Footprints of the Six Nations, […] , Fayetteville: H. C. Beauchamp, →LCCN, page 128:

The three sisters work together as companion plants in many ways. Growing wide-spreading pumpkin vine among vertically oriented corn and beans saves space.

2012, Gail Damerow, The Perfect Pumpkin: Growing/Cooking/Carving, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:

She gave me specifics on what to plant and the layout of the garden. Traditional Native American plants, heirloom varieties only, no GMOs allowed. Use the three sisters approach for planting corn, squash and beans, ilito onions would ring the interior of the fence and sunflowers would stand tall.

2012, Kathleen O’Dwyer, Breathing Blue: Giving my life to Spirit and Spirit to my life, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 151:

(US, Canada, agriculture, horticulture) The combination of maize (corn), pole beans (Phaseolus vulgaris or climbing beans, string beans, etc.), and squash (i.e. pumpkin), especially when planted together in intertwined plantings.


lebbek

Forsskål’s 1775 Flora Ægyptiaco-Arabica recorded the Arabic لَبَخ (labaḵ) as læbach, leæba (page 172), lebbek (page LI, LXXVII), which Willdenow’s 1797 edition of Linnæi Species plantarum made translingual as Acacia lebbeck.

Albizia lebbeck
Albizia lebbeck#Translingual

Carl Linnaeus
Forsskål
Species Plantarum


noli me tangere

noli me tangere (plural noli me tangeres)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-noli me tangere.wav

/-ˌmeɪ ˈtɑnd͡ʒəɹeɪ/

Antonio da Correggio
Jesus
Mary Magdalene
Museo del Prado
Vulgate

PIE word
 *ne
From Middle English noli me tangere, noly me tangere (“skin disease of the face; bad-tempered person who should be avoided; personification of wrath”), a learned borrowing from Late Latin nōlī mē tangere (literally “do not touch me”), from Latin nōlī (“do not”) + mē (“me, myself”) + tangere (the present active infinitive of tangō (“to grasp; to touch”)). The phrase is recorded in John 20:17 of the Vulgate, a 4th-century Latin translation of the Bible, as having been spoken to Mary Magdalene by Jesus shortly after his resurrection outside his tomb. The original phrase was the Koine Greek μή μου ἅπτου (mḗ mou háptou, “stop clinging to me”).
Senses 2–5 refer to the literal meaning of the phrase. For example, in the case of sense 4 (“any of various plants with fruits or seed capsules that, when ripe, burst open and discharge their seeds when touched, or with leaves that fold and droop when touched”), the name alludes to the assumption that the plants do not wish to be touched, and react by exploding their fruits or closing their leaves if this happens.

ref

From the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain.

noncog

μή μου ἅπτου

asia josta pysyä loitolla

someone or something to be avoided or not interfered with

kosketusherkkä kasvi

There are only tvvo ſpecies of this genera uſually cultivated in the Engliſh gardens, both annuals; one is the Noli me tangere, or Touch-me-not, eſteemed more for the ſingularity of it's elaſtic capſules than beauty of its flovvers […]

1778, Thomas Mawe, John Abercrombie, “IMPATIENS, Touch-me-not, and Balsamine, or Balsam”, in The Universal Gardener and Botanist; or, A General Dictionary of Gardening and Botany. […], London: […] G[eorge] Robinson, […]; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, column 1:

Any of various plants with fruits or seed capsules that, when ripe, burst open and discharge their seeds when touched, or with leaves that fold and droop when touched.

Some plants of the genus Impatiens; specifically, the touch-me-not balsam or yellow balsam (Impatiens noli-tangere).

häpykannus

plant of the genus Impatiens — see also impatiens


snailflower

Cochliasanthus caracalla, a leguminous vine of South and Central America, whose fragrant flowers have a distinctive curled shape.


bubinga

en-noun

bubinga (usually uncountable, plural bubingas)

Any of several species of large trees of tropical Africa.

Primarily a wetland wood, bubinga thrives in swamps, inundated forests and near rivers and lakes. An equally well-known bubinga includes species Guibourtia demeusei, Guibourtia pellegriniana, and Guibourtia tessmannii. All bubingas are members of the Leguminosae family but go by various commercial names.

1988, Wood and Wood Products, volume 93:


dyer's greenweed

dyer's greenweed (countable and uncountable, plural dyer's greenweeds)

Genista tinctoria
Genista tinctoria#Translingual


sassywood

sassywood (usually uncountable, plural sassywoods)

From sassy, of unknown (probably African) origin + wood.

refn

From P[aul Hermann Wilhelm] Taubert (1891) Wilhelm Engelmann, editor, Leguminosae (Natürliche Pflanzenfamilien; vol. III, no. 3), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, →OCLC, figure 75.

The person who is designated as guilty of the crime of witchcraft is arrested by the soldier king, and condemned to the ordeal of sassy-wood. The bark of the sassy-wood is powerfully narcotic, and a strong decoction of this the person condemned is forced to drink; and after he has drank it, he walks to and fro, exclaiming "Am I a witch," "am I a witch?" while one of his executioners walks behind him replying "You are a witch, you are a witch;" and this continues until he either throws off from his stomach the poison, when he is pronounced innocent, or it operates as a cathartic, when he is declared guilty, and compelled to take more of the decoction, and is subjected to other cruelties, which cause his speedy death. […] This ordeal by sassy-wood is one of the most prevalent and cruel of African superstitions, and is practised among nearly if not all the tribes of Africa.

1850 September 14, [James M.] Connelly, “[Appendix G.] Report of the Kroo People”, in Report of the Secretary of State, Communicating the Report of the Rev. R[alph] R[andolph] Gurley, who was Recently Sent Out by the Government to Obtain Information in Respect to Liberia (United States Senate, 31st Congress, 1st session; ex. doc. no. 75), [Washington, D.C.]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 59:

A man named Prince came into the parlor; he spoke broken English, and told Mrs. Payne that his people were going to give him ‘sasa-wood.’ A man had died among his people, and the men bearing the body to the grave ran against his house: they believe that the body influences them to go against the house of him who bewitched or killed the dead man. He (Prince) had gone to another town, and was trying sasa-wood in small quantities; if it does not injure him, he will go to his own town, and take it before his people.

1859, George D[avid] Cummins, “Life at Cavalla”, in Life of Mrs. Virginia Hale Hoffman, Late of the Protestant Episcopal Mission to Western Africa, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lindsay & Blakiston, →OCLC, pages 87–88:

[…] He wondered what sasswood was—Delah had sworn by sasswood that she was telling the truth when the coaxed those in the shadow village out of hiding. Delah explained that many years ago, before the Americos starting intefering in tribal business, trial by sasswood was a way of determining whether a person accused of a crime was innocent or guilty. The bark of a particular tree was mashed to make a "truth serum." If the accused died after drinking the concoction, he was guilty. Refusal to drink was also an indication of guilt, in which case the accused was executed.

2000, James E. Christie, Juju, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, part III (War), page 423:

The man dipped a machete in a concoction of water, palm oil and kola nuts, held it in fire for several minutes, and then placed it on the right legs of the four suspects. None of the youths – ages 16 to 26 – appeared to flinch. They were deemed not guilty. This practice known as ‘sassywood’ is banned under national law, but is still regarded as a legitimate form of justice by many Liberians. A suspect is subjected to intense pain and judged on his or her reaction – if the hot metal burns the person’s leg, he or she is found guilty. […] According to a rights activist in Nimba County, the problem is that many people will submit to sassywood because they do not know it has been outlawed. “Sassywood is very common here and most people believe that it is the only means of knowing a guilty person,” said Dualo Lor of the church-based NGO Equip-Liberia in Nimba, 300km from Monrovia. “They are not even aware the practice is outlawed.”

2007 November 1, “Trial by ordeal makes the guilty burn but ‘undermines justice’”, in IRIN, archived from the original on 2017-05-06:

A form of trial by ordeal in Liberia, typically involving a suspect drinking a poisonous concoction made from the bark of the ordeal tree Erythrophleum guineense, Erythrophleum ivorense, or Erythrophleum suaveolens (called sassy bark); by extension, other forms of trial by ordeal such as applying a heated machete to the suspect's legs, or dipping the suspect's hand into hot oil.


kiawe

Some kiawes have no thorns but usually the youngest branches of the tree have thorns, which are bad for barefoot Island children.

1996, Peggy Hickok Hodge, Gardening in Hawaii, page 80:

Take time to look around at the dawning light that casts lovely shadows on the rock and the gnarly kiawe (a relative of mesquite) trees that line the dry canyon walls.

2009 August 20, Jim Byers, “The summit of Hawaiian beauty”, in Toronto Star:

Prosopis pallida, a species of mesquite tree.


albizzia

From the commonly used, but invalid translingual taxonomic name Albizzia, a correction of Albizia to match Filippo degli Albizzi's name. Such corrections, however, are not allowed by the taxonomic rules.

Any of a number of trees and shrubs considered either now or formerly to belong to the genus Albizia.


St. Thomas bean

en-noun

St. Thomas bean (plural St. Thomas beans)

A plant of species Entada phaseoloides, found in Oceania and East Asia.


Indian coral tree

Indian coral tree (plural Indian coral trees)

A tree of species Erythrina variegata, native to the tropical and subtropical regions of eastern Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, northern Australia, and the islands of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean east to Fiji.


cacoon vine

The tropical vine Entada rheedei, which bears the cacoon.


African dream herb

traditional medicine
traditional medicine

Entada rheedei or Entada rheedii, a large woody liana used in African traditional medicine to induce vivid dreams.


African rosewood

African rosewood (countable and uncountable, plural African rosewoods)

Millettia laurentii, a legume tree native to western central Africa that yields a wood called wenge.

Species in the genus Guibourtia, including

Guibourtia coleosperma, a tree species of Angola and some neighboring countries.

Hagenia abyssinica (East African rosewood), a species of flowering plant native to high-elevation regions of central and eastern Africa.

Pterocarpus erinaceus, or other African Pterocarpus spp.


pultenaea

Any of the genus Pultenaea of Australian flowering plants; the bush peas.


bugwood

Besides these two trees, which are the most general form of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last so named from its light red sap, which oozes in a thick stream

1904, Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume 20, page 578:


wirilda

It grows on branches of wirilda wattle, and is no longer common in the area, although it can also be seen on wirildas along the cliff walk at Queenscliff.

2013, Graham Patterson, Coastal guide to nature and history: Port Phillip Bay, page 27:

An Australian acacia tree, Acacia retinodes, which has edible seeds.


velvet bean

Mucuna pruriens
Mucuna pruriens#Translingual

Any of several legumes.
Mucuna pruriens.

Any of several legumes.
Mucuna pruriens subsp. deeringiana.

Any of several legumes.
Pseudarthria hookeri.


snuff box sea bean

snuff box sea bean (plural snuff box sea beans)

Lens phaseoloides. Snuff-box sea-bean. Plate LVI. Family Fabaceae. Local names.--Gayê, Gadyê, Gayî, Lódusong, Bayog (Guam); Gogo, Gogong bakai, Bayogo, Balones (Philippines); Cacoon (West Indies); Boja (Cuba); Tupe (Samoa); Kaka (Rarotonga); Match-box bean (Queensland).

1905, Elihu Root, Elihu Root collection of United States documents:

The seeds of the snuff box, sea bean (Entada scandens) are mentioned in Norse literature as early as 1632 as of inorganic origin and were often considered to have been formed by the waves and called solvent stones.

1920, Edward W. Berry, “A Fossil Sea Bean from Venezuela”, in The American Journal of Science, page 311:

Entada phaseoloides (Linnaeus) Merrill, also called Entada scandens, the match-box bean or snuff-box sea bean

1939, The Guam Recorder, volumes 16-18, page 350:

entada rheedii, commonly known as the African Dream Herb or Snuff Box Sea Bean

2015, S Kamminlun Vaiphei, Folktales of the Vaiphei:

The other species of Entada is E. phaseoloides, commonly known as Queensland bean. It is distributed throughout the tropical forests from Africa to Australia. Match box bean and snuff box sea bean are other names used for this species.

2016, Bharati Bhattacharyya, Golden Greens: The Amazing World of Plants, page 136:

African dream herb
African dream herb#English

Variously the St. Thomas bean (Entada phaseoloides) or the African dream herb (Entada rheedei).


sensitive plant

sensitive plant (plural sensitive plants)

The picture that was found on a bramble-bush, the new sensitive-plant, or tree, which caught the swain by the upper-garment, and presented to his ravished eyes a portrait.

1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction:

A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew, / And the young winds fed it with silver dew, / And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, / And closed them beneath the kisses of the night.

1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Sensitive Plant”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], →OCLC, part first, stanza 1, page 157:

The heart is the true sensitive plant—revolting at a touch.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 284:

Mimosa pudica
Mimosa pudica#Translingual

A plant that moves in response to touch and other physical stimuli; especially Mimosa pudica, an annual plant native to Central and South America.


minnerichi

Acacia cyperophylla, a fabaceous tree of Australia.


coffee senna

coffee senna (usually uncountable, plural coffee sennas)

A pantropical plant of species Senna occidentalis, used medicinally.


yellow broom

Any yellow-blooming plant of tribe Genisteae: subfamily Faboideae, especially:

1861, Charlotte Guest, translator, The Mabinogion/The Dream of Rhonabwy.
And the green of the caparison of the horse, and of his rider, was as green as the leaves of the fir-tree, and the yellow was as yellow as the blossom of the broom.

(US) Baptisia tinctoria, of the tribe Thermopsideae: subfamily Faboideae.


caesalpinia

Learned borrowing from translingual Caesalpinia.

learned borrowing

(botany) Any member of the genus Caesalpinia.


nicker bean

Entada gigas, a flowering liana in the pea family Fabaceae, with large seed pods.


tree lupin

Russell and tree lupin produced seed, and seedlings are growing. The larger tree lupin plants are growing in spite of snow damage.

1966, Report of the Forest Research Institute, Rotorua, New Zealand Forest Service, page 76:

Studies in New Zealand began at Woodhill, one of the coastal sand dune forests of the North Island, in which marram grass (Ammophila arenaria) and perennial tree lupin (Lupinus arboreus) are used to stabilise the sand before Pinus radiata forest is established.

1983, John C. Gordon, Biological nitrogen fixation in forest ecosystems: foundations and applications:

Where the slopes are too steep for agricultural management and where coarser-grained wastes are too droughty for pasture legumes to persist, the end point of the reclamation process could be a scrub cover of tree lupins (Lupinus arboreits) and/or gorse (Ulex spp.), the willow (Salix cinera) and eventually oak (Quercus spp.) woodland.

1993, Peter Alma, Environmental Concerns, page 98:

A species of flowering plant, Lupinus arboreus.


tick-trefoil

From tick + trefoil (“three-leaved”). Tick refers to the plant's loments – pods that break apart into segments that each contain one seed – which have small hooked hairs that allow the segments to stick to clothes, hair, or fur, similar to the way a tick clings on with its legs.

One of several species in the genus Desmodium in the legume family


swarthaak

The vegetation on this plateau is chiefly vaal and rosyntjiebos, with areas of swarthaak and Karroo veld.

1947, Journal of the South African Veterinary Medical Association, page 156:

On the farm of my boyhood friend Gys there had also been a row of old Griqua graves in the open veld among the swarthaak thorn-trees, far from the house […].

1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 302:

Some of the main, or pioneering woody invaders in various parts are: Acacia mellifera var. detinens, known as swarthaak, which has invaded about 2 million ha, notably in the northern Cape and western Transvaal […].

2013, Holzner & Numata, editor, Biology and ecology of weeds, page 430:

(South Africa) An African thorn tree, Senegalia mellifera.


garden pea

Contemporary snow pea cultivars have been bred from crosses between snow and garden peas. For example, 'Oregon Sugar Pod' came from a cross of 'Dwarf Gray Sugar' with OSU 102 (a garden pea with typical freezer pea characteristics).

2001, Jules Janick, Plant Breeding Reviews, volume 21, page 97:

Peas likely came ashore in the New World with the earliest English and French explorers and spread along with the colonies. Thomas Jefferson has a nearly mythical association with garden peas.

2011, Sheri Castle, The New Southern Garden Cookbook:

(usually in the plural) A variety of pea grown for food.


oxytrope

From translingual Oxytropis, from Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp, pointy”) + τρόπις (trópis, “keel”).


red sanders

A tree of species Pterocarpus santalinus or its reddish heartwood, highly valued in woodworking, and used as a dye as well as a traditional herbal medicine.


asparagus bean

Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis
Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis

A bean of east Asia with long, edible pods, a yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis).


yam bean

Any of the plants in the genus Pachyrhizus, including several similar cultivated species.


albizia

A wilt disease has spread among many of the large trees in the Seychelles with most of the sandragons and albizias being affected […].

2012, Lyn Mair, Lynnath Beckley, Seychelles: The Bradt Travel Guide, page 31:

To visit Grandpa, Margio had to trudge up the hill through albizia trees and clove woods, on paths lined by mahogany trees, deep into the wild jungle known only to hunters.

2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 38:

A plant of the genus Albizia; a siris or silk tree.


kulthi

A bean grown for food or horse fodder, the horse gram, Macrotyloma uniflorum.


horse gram

en-noun

horse gram (countable and uncountable, plural horse grams)

A plant with edible beans, native to southern India, Macrotyloma uniflorum (in older literature Dolichos uniflorus or Dolichos biflorus), grown as a minor food crop or as fodder for horses.


hopniss

Borrowed from Unami hopënis (/hopənis/ (which has now shifted to meaning "potato"), compare Munsee óhpən, ohpën (“potato”)), possibly via Colonial Swedish. Compare katniss.

You have to cook hopniss tubers—they are inedible and potentially toxic raw. They are great boiled, roasted, or fried.

2014, Leda Meredith, Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles, →ISBN:

Apios americana, a perennial vine that bears edible beans and large edible tubers.


hog peanut

A plant native to eastern North America that produces edible nut-like seeds both aboveground and underground, Amphicarpaea bracteata


desert bean

(US) A wild plant of species Phaseolus filiformis, with edible beans, native to arid regions in northern Mexico and the southwestern US.


Moreton Bay chestnut

Moreton Bay chestnut (plural Moreton Bay chestnuts)

A large Australian tree with showy flowers and poisonous seeds, prized for its dense, attractive wood, Castanospermum australe.


field pea

A type of domestic pea grown for use as a dry seed rather than as a vegetable, as:

Any of certain varieties of Lathyrus oleraceus.

Vigna unguiculata
Vigna unguiculata#Translingual

Any of certain varieties of Vigna unguiculata.


crowder pea

Generally said to be from crowd, due to some varieties having seeds crowded together in the pod, but possibly from crowdy (“porridge, gruel”)

A type of cowpea, Vigna unguiculata, closely related to the black-eyed pea, but without the characteristic black spot.


chickling vetch

Nativized spelling of chichling vetch or chickling + vetch first nativizing chickling from chichling then compounding.

Lathyrus is known in English as the chickling vetch or grass pea and can be bought in very specialized Italian grocery stores as cicerchia, which fascinatingly enough have been revived in Slow Food circles as a traditional Umbrian food in danger of disappearance. They look something like chickpeas, but smaller.

2007, Ken Albala, “Oddballs and Villains”, in Beans: A History, Berg, →ISBN:

Lathyrus sativus
Lathyrus sativus#Translingual

A plant with edible seeds similar to peas and chickpeas of species Lathyrus sativus, used as a famine food but causing lathyrism if eaten in large amounts or over a long time.


ervil

Vicia ervilia
Vicia ervilia#Translingual

bitter vetch, blister vetch (Vicia ervilia).


bitter vetch

bitter vetch (usually uncountable, plural bitter vetches)


ifil

A Philippine and Pacific island tree (Intsia bijuga), yielding a valuable brown dye and having a very hard and durable dark wood.


chhole

Usually she makes my father’s favorite dishes along with poori, samosas, chhole and sweets.

2009 September 27, Natasha Singh, “My Mother’s Imposed Fast: I Feel Her Hunger”, in New York Times:


bobby bean

Similarly, the recent boom in imports of fine beans from Egypt has been based on pre-existing capabilities in growing the less sophisticated bobby beans.

2001, Oliver Morrissey, Igor Filatotchev, Globalisation and Trade, →ISBN:

For the UK market, it is important to note that fine beans are only acceptable up to a maximum of 7-5.5mm diameter. Thus, in this market, fine beans range from 6 to 7.5mm and bobby beans must be at least 8.5mm. Any product between 7.5 and 8.5mm is hard to sell.

2001, Commonwealth Secretariat, Guidelines for Exporters of Fruit and Vegetables to the European Markets, →ISBN:

Bobby beans are produced mostly in large plantations, as they are less labor-intensive than the extra fine beans, which tend to do better in smallholder farms due to high labor requirements.

2007, Julius Juma Okello, Clare Narrod, Devesh Roy, Food Safety Requirements in African Green Bean Exports and Their Impact on Small Farmers, page 4:

A French bean that is larger than 8mm in diameter, typically from a variety such as Nerina, Bronco, or Paulista.


fine bean

The double component is that both courgette and bean elements are twofold: yellow and green courgettes, cut into batons, oil-dressed and oven-roasted; waxy, kidney-curling vibrantly green broad beans, and darker green fine beans, both lightly boiled then refreshed to keep their verdant intensity.

2014, Nigella Lawson, Nigella Summer, →ISBN:

A French bean that is narrower than 7.5 to 9mm in diameter, typically from a species such as Monel, Garonnel, Amy, Masai, Longio, or Paulista.


canafistula

Possibly from translingual Cassia fistula.

Cassia fistula
Cassia fistula#Translingual

The flowering plant Cassia fistula, the golden shower tree.


dapdap

Borrowed from Tagalog or Cebuano, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dapdap.

(Philippines) The Indian coral tree, Erythrina variegata.


golden rain

golden rain (countable and uncountable, plural golden rains)

Laburnum anagyroides
Laburnum anagyroides#Translingual


golden rain tree

golden rain tree (plural golden rain trees)

Any plant of genus Koelreuteria, especially Koelreuteria paniculata.


velvet tamarind

velvet tamarind (countable and uncountable, plural velvet tamarinds)

A tamarind plant, usually from one of three species

Dialium cochinchinense, native to southeast Asia

Dialium indum, native to south and southeast Asia


frywood

From fry + wood, referring to the sound the seeds make as they rattle inside the pods, like food frying.


woman's tongue tree

woman's tongue tree (plural woman's tongue trees)

An allusion to the sound the seeds make as they rattle inside the pods, and women's tendency to gossip.


garbanzo bean

The Spaniard, it seems, takes at every meal his "garbanzo" bean, the Italian his macaroni, etc.

1884, The Dietetic Reformer and Vegetarian Messenger, volume XI, page 95:

Garbanzo bean (Cicer arietinum L.), also called chickpea, is a large-seeded annual legume.

1958, Colorado Agricultural College, Technical Bulletin, volume 734, page 1:

Garbanzo beans have been known throughout Europe since the Middle Ages. They are available dried, or canned.

2006, Fabien Bellahsen, Daniel Rouche, France: Mediterranean Cuisine, page 60:

Cicer arietinum
Cicer arietinum#Translingual


njahi

This may have been due to the rather unsatisfactory manner in which the bjahi went under the ground — future experiments will corroborate this explanation or otherwise — or because the soil is still so fertile and still has so much organic matter that, especially in years of ample rainfall, the amount of soil nutrients derived from two crops of njahi makes no appreciable difference to- the total plant food substances available in the soil.

1933, Kenya Dept. of Agriculture, Bulletin:

When he got there, he found his colleagues tucking into roast chicken and other tastier things than njahi and could not help pitying himself.

2017 July 20, “MY WEEKEND: Just be sure you are in the right wedding ceremony before late”, in Daily Nation:

Lablab purpureus
Lablab purpureus#Translingual

A type of black bean grown in Kenya, hyacinth bean or lablab (Lablab purpureus).


devil's shoestring

The plant Tephrosia virginiana (goat's rue, catgut).


silk tree

an Asiatic leguminous tree (Albizia julibrissin) with finely bipinnate leaves, and large flat pods; so called because of the abundant long silky stamens of its blossoms.


stinking toe

(Caribbean, Jamaica, informal) The edible fruit of Hymenaea courbaril.


tcha-tcha

The plants were easier to identify. One was a species of Albizzia known in Haiti as tcha-tcha, and planted as a shade tree throughout the country.

1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 95:

Haitians cheered and waved tcha-tcha branches, symbols of joy, as their first freely elected leader, above, gives a victory wave from the balcony of the National Palace.

In Haiti, the small flowering tree Albizia lebbeck.


crownvetch

crownvetch (usually uncountable, plural crownvetches)

From crown + vetch, formed identically to Dutch kroonwikke, German Kronwicke.

A crawling leguminous vine, Securigera varia, which is native to Eurasia and Africa but widely planted elsewhere as a ground cover, where it can become an invasive weed.


pyinkado

From Burmese ပျဉ်းကတိုး (pyany:ka.tui:).


diesel tree

Copaifera langsdorffii, a tropical rainforest tree whose wood is honeycombed with capillaries filled with oil.


snake vine

(US) false Solomon's seal, Maianthemum racemosum


snap pea

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Pisum sativum
Pisum sativum#Translingual

A cultivar of pea, Pisum sativum, having an edible pod like the snow pea, but differing from the latter in that its pod is more rounded.


fever tree

To write of fever in the home of the far-famed “fever tree,” without adding a word upon its merits, would look like denying it honour in its own country; and to avoid that appearance of ingratitude, a leaf will now be gleaned from indigenous blue-gum literature.

1874, William Thomson, On Typhoid Fever, page 195:

Virtually all the trees in the home range of the baboons are acacias of just two species: the fever tree, Acacia xanthophloea (18.4% of feeding bouts), and, on somewhat higher, drier ground, the umbrella tree, A. tortilis (5.0%).

1998, Stuart A. Altmann, “Dietary Diversity”, in Foraging for Survival: Yearling Baboons in Africa, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 76:

Goodbye. I am going to the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.

1912, Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child:

An acacia tree, Vachellia xanthophloea, native to eastern and southern Africa, with fragrant yellow flowers.


crab's eye

Abrus precatorius
Abrus precatorius#Translingual

A viney legume of species Abrus precatorius.


cebil

The carob tree (Spanish algarrobo), which might be called the oak of the country, from its slow growth and general aspect, unfortunately docs not possess a bark rich in tannin. Nevertheless, we have the cebil in two varieties — the red and the white [...]. *: Red Cebil (Acacia Cebil, Gries). — Experience, as well as chemical analysis, teaches us that the mature tree produces the greatest quantity of tannin, [...]. White Cebil. — This tree is distinguished from the red species by its leaves, which are more finely feathered, and by the facility with which its bark dries and ceases to take part in the circulation of the trees. [...] The young trees of the two species of cebil contain almost the same quantity of tannin; [...]

1878, Pharmaceutical Journal: A Weekly Record of Pharmacy and Allied Sciences, page 548:

From 900-1,200 ft. to 3,000-4,500 ft. is the zone of the cebils and the giant trees, ...

1914, George J. Mills, Argentina: Physical Features, Natural Resources, Means of Communication, Manufactures and Industrial Development, page 132:

(uncommon) A South American tree (Anadenanthera colubrina), the bark of which contains tannin and is used in tanning hides.


amaltas

(India) The canafistula or golden shower tree.


pagoda tree

(source of wealth): See pagoda (“a kind of gold coin”).

India has been transferred from the regions of romance to the realms of fact […] the mines of Golconda no longer pay the cost of working, and the pagoda-tree has been stripped of all its golden fruit.

It might be mistaken […] for the work of some modern architect, built for the Nabob of a couple of generations back, who had enriched himself when the pagoda-tree was worth the shaking.

1881 September 3, Saturday Review, page 307:

(India, archaic, colloquial) The opportunity to make money rapidly in British India.


caesalpinioid

Any tree of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae


dalbergioid

Any flowering plant of the tribe Dalbergieae or the clade Dalbergioids.


genistoid

Any of many flowering plants in a clade of the subfamily Papilionoideae


ndengu

Vigna radiata
Vigna radiata#Translingual

(Kenya) green gram (bean of Vigna radiata)


guango

Albizia saman
Albizia saman#Translingual

(Jamaica) The tree Albizia saman, of the pea family.


vataireoid

Any of a monophyletic clade of legumes of the subfamily Faboideae


tiger wood

The variegated heartwood of a tree (Paramachaerium schomburgkii, syn. Machaerium schomburgkii) found in Guiana.


scarlet runner

In reference to its red flowers and climbing habit.

Phaseolus coccineus
Phaseolus coccineus#Translingual


tagasaste

Optimum spacing between tagasaste plants within rows must depend on site conditions, especially moisture and nutrient availability.

1990, R. J. Townsend, “Tagasaste forage production systems”, in New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 33, page 632:

Cytisus proliferus, a small evergreen tree commonly used to improve the condition of soils used for farming.


popinac

Variant of opopanax, a shrub (Opopanax chironium).

Vachellia farnesiana
Vachellia farnesiana#Translingual

Vachellia farnesiana (syn. Acacia farnesiana), a widely cultivated thorny shrubby acacia of the southern U.S. and tropical America with fragrant ball-shaped yellow flowers.


white popinac

Leucaena leucocephala
Leucaena leucocephala#Translingual

A small fast-growing mimosoid tree (Leucaena leucocephala), native to southern Mexico and northern Central America, now naturalized throughout the tropics.


needle bush

Any of certain shrubs with needle-like leaves.

Of genus Hakea, especially of species Hakea lissosperma and Hakea preissii, native to Australia.


chanate

Borrowed from Spanish chanate, from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl tzanatl (“great-tailed grackle”).

cog

great-tailed grackle
great-tailed grackle

Quiscalus mexicanus
Quiscalus mexicanus#Translingual

great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)

“A chanate has come to pay us a visit,” doña Gertrudis said. [...] “It’s a black bird with red shoulders,”

2003, Rigoberto González, Crossing Vines: A Novel, page 67:

red-winged blackbird
red-winged blackbird#English

Agelaius phoeniceus
Agelaius phoeniceus#Translingual

red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)


clubgrass

Several sedges in Scirpus and related genera.


serradilla

A common flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae, native to grasslands in temperate Eurasia and North Africa.


Japanese arrowroot

Pueraria montana var. lobata#Translingual


cancer bush

From cancer (“disease”) + bush, probably a calque of Afrikaans kankerbos. Named after one of its uses in folk medicine.

A legume native to Southern Africa that grows red flowers and bloated pods, often used in folk medicine; Lessertia frutescens (formerly Sutherlandia frutescens).


snake bean

Bobgunnia madagascariensis, a poisonous legume found in Africa.

Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis#Translingual

Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis, a widely cultivated edible legume.


sweet acacia

en-noun

sweet acacia (countable and uncountable, plural sweet acacias)

Acacia suaveolens (sweet wattle), a shrub endemic to Australia.

Vachellia farnesiana (needle bush, popinac), native to Mexico and Central America, and widely introduced.


coralwood

Guibourtia spp., native to Africa and South America, source of a high-quality timber.


western redbud

western redbud (usually uncountable, plural western redbuds)

A large shrub or small tree of the western US, Cercis occidentalis, sometimes grown for its bright pink or magenta spring flowers and formerly used by the Indians to make baskets.


thorn tree

From Middle English thornetre; equivalent to thorn + tree.

They then came together to hear the preaching of the Gospel; but I postponed it till the evening, because I was then exceedingly wearied. The captain shewed me a large old thorn tree for a lodging.

1811, “Visit to the Great Namaquas”, in The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad, volume 6, page 466:

Thirty feet below her, where the Persians were crashing through the brush, the streambed kinked to the left side of the ravine and ran under an enormous thorn tree with a thick base.

2007 April 1, Thomas Harlan, The Shadow of Ararat: Book One of 'The Oath of Empire', page 294:

I WOULD HAVE been nine or ten when my mother chased me up a thorn tree with a ceremonial hippo-hide whip. What my crime was, I forget. My mother was, and remains, a woman of exceptional forbearance. I must have done something so obnoxious as to beggar belief.

2010 August 3, David Bennun, Tick Bite Fever, Random House, page 109:

A common name for any tree which has leaves like thorns, especially the acacia.


poisonvetch

Any of various poisonous plants of the genus Astragalus.


sugar snap pea

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split pea

(botany, cooking) An agricultural or culinary preparation consisting of the dried, peeled, and split seeds of Pisum sativum, the pea.

poolikud herned

dried, peeled, and split seeds of the pea


urad dal

From Hindi उड़द दाल (uṛad dāl); see urad + dal.

(India, cooking) A bean (Vigna mungo) or a dish made from it.


sea pea

In a time of great scarcity, the people about our coast found the sea pea in great plenty, and fed upon it.

1758, Thomas Hale, A Compleat Body of Husbandry, page 389:

Growing between sea and land, so that it might almost be doubted in which element it is denizen, the Sea Pea, Lathyrus maritimus, turns up, very local, at various places on our southern and eastern coasts, and is known elsewhere throughout the British Isles only from a few stations in Wales and Ireland.

1963, Anthony Gishford, Tribute to Benjamin Britten on His Fiftieth Birthday, page 145:

The shingle itself – so much of it, so clean and smooth – the flatness, throwing the immense blue dome of the sky into even greater relief, the symmetrical mounds of blue-green sea kale, the creeping skeins of sea pea with its bright-purple flowers, the air, the space, the wind, it was all exhilerating...

2011, Joanna Trollope, Daughters-in-Law, →ISBN:

Mines had been placed along our beaches to proetect the country from invasion, and this resulted in an abundance of rough green carpets of sea peas with fat sturdy leaves, thanks to the lack of human traffic.

2018, Michael Ondaatje, Warlight, →ISBN, pages 284–285:

A variety of pea ( Lathyrus japonicus) found on beaches.


pacara

... mantling the slopes are other still denser forests, where the Pacara (Enterolobium timbavica), Lapacho (Tecoma stans), Quina-Quina (Myroxilon peruanum), Urunday (allied to the Lapacho) Quefioa (Rosacea Polylepis racemosa), Cascaron ...

1881, Ernest William White, Cameos from the Silver-land: Or, The Experiences of a Young Naturalist in the Argentine Republic, London: J. Van Voorst, page 44:

Of the same family is the pacara, equally rapid in growth ; both produce a fruit which serves for making soap. The tatane, or palo amarillo, is a large mimosa, well suited for making furniture. Cedars, red as well as white, flourish in the warmer ...

1885, Michael George Mulhall, Edward T. Mulhall, Handbook of the River Plate, Comprising the Argentine Republic, Uruguay and Paraguay: With Railway Map, page 8:

Growing with or near the sebil, we find the two cedars, the white and the pink; the lapaccio, that we have remarked likewise in the sub-zone of the urunday, the walnut, the laurel, the tatane, the pacara, the mulberry, the tipa, the male oak,...

1886, Juan Pelleschi, Eight Months on the Gran Chaco of the Argentine Republic, London: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, page 247:

This region of the forest contains many magnificent trees and shrubs: the wild pepper, the nogal or walnut, the Algaroba, and the pacara. The shrubs all have either bipinnate or tripinnate leaves. One shrub has far more flowers upon it than ...

1889, Leicester Literary, Philosophical Society, Transactions, page 171:

... the tatane is golden yellow; the pacara is dark red; the molle is black-brown; the lapacho is green, gray and black; the guayabo is deep red, veined with black and yellow; the palo ribera is dark cinnamon with red veins; the guayacan is black ...

1896, Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics, page 317:

The Wax Palm, Copemica cert/era, is wide-spread, and the Pacara, a huge Mimosa, is described as a tree of great size and beauty, yielding a fruit containing a large percentage of Saponine. Other useful trees in the Gran Chaco are Urunday, ...

1904, Journal of the African Society, page 419:

... Originally described from roots of the pacara earpod tree (Enterolobium contortisiliquum) in China. Meloidogyne enterolobii was previously reported in SA as Meloidogyne mayaguensis Rammah and Hirschmann, 1988, and recorded from ...

2017, Hendrika Fourie, Vaughan W. Spaull, Robin K. Jones, Mieke S. Daneel, Dirk De Waele, Nematology in South Africa: A View from the 21st Century, Springer, →ISBN, page 61:

A large tree of the mimosa family, Enterolobium contortisiliquum, which yields wood good for carpentry.


barbatimao

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese barbatimão.

bor+

One of the trees that are coming into notice is the barbatimao. The union's attention was directed toward it through a German tanner who had gone to Brazil, and the union has experimented with barbatimao bark at various tanneries, as well as ...

1908, “Tanning Properties of Barbatimao Bark”, in Harness, page 4:

These referred largely to the bark of the barbatimao. The most abundant source of tannin in the country is the mangrove. … Next in importance come angico, … and the barbatimao tree.

1916, Consul General Alfred L. Moreau Gottschalk, Brazilian Tanning and Dyeing Materials, in The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association, page 315

… additional samples of the "Barbatimao" bark (Stryphnodendron Barbatimao, Mart.) have been received from an American consular officer in Brazil, and may be examined at the Bureau or its district offices. (Refer to file No. 74607.)

1916, 1916 April 18, [US Department of] Commerce Reports, number 91, page 240

BARBATIMAO BARK. An article in La Bourse aux Cuirs de Bruxelles mentions the use of barbatimao bark in Brazil. Barbatimao bark is obtained from the tree Stryphnodcndron Barbatimao, and constitutes one of the richest tanning materials ...

A considerable number of wild plants rich in tannin grow in various regions of Brazil. They fall into three main botanical groups: the barbatimao trees, with a tannin ...

1976, Brazil: Resources and Possibilities:

Evaluation of mutagenic and/or recombinogenic activity of extracts of barbatimao (Stryphnodendron adstringens, Mart.) in germ and somatic cells of Drosophila melanogaster [...]

A South American mimosa tree, Stryphnodendron adstringens (formerly Stryphnodendron barbatimao), which has an astringent, tannin-rich bark.


knobthorn

Senegalia nigrescens, a deciduous African tree found in savanna regions.


desert oak

We passed through a stand of desert oaks, which are a species of casuarina and look less like an oak than a cactus.

1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 144:

Molly and Gracie spent a lovely weekend with their families digging for kulgu yams and collecting bunches of yellow flowers from the desert oaks, which they brought home to share with those who stayed behind to take care of the old people and the dogs.

1996, Doris Pinkington, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 169

(Australia) Any of several trees of dry parts of Australia, especially Acacia coriacea, Acacia sericophylla, and Allocasuarina decaisneana.


maloga bean

[T]he silent melaleuca trees and paperbark woodland, decorated for Christmas with bouquets of red mistletoe flowers and the sleepy olive vines of wild medicine and maloga beans.

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 294:

(Australia) The pencil yam, Vigna lanceolata.


soap acacia

en-noun

soap acacia (countable and uncountable, plural soap acacias)

A plant of species Senegalia rugata (syn. Acacia concinna).


Bengal gram

A form of chickpea, or the flour made from it


hedgehog plant

Next time at Kew, look in the rock garden at the hedgehog plant, Erinacea anthyllis, with its mauve flowers.

1993, The Horticulturist, volume 2, page 138:

The spiny evergreen flowering plant Erinacea anthyllis.


honey mesquite

These habitats were most evident on the Iberian Peninsula where, by 15 million years ago, members of the thorn-rose genus (Neurada), esparto grass, honey mesquite and nitre bush (Nitraria) flourished in arid shrublands.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 97:

Prosopis glandulosa, a thorny shrub or tree in the legume family Fabaceae.


snail clover

snail clover (countable and uncountable, plural snail clovers)

Certain species of medick, especially Medicago scutellata.


snail trefoil

snail trefoil (countable and uncountable, plural snail trefoils)

Synonym of snail clover (Medicago scutellata)


deerweed

deerweed (countable and uncountable, plural deerweeds)


heart clover

From Middle English hartclaver, herte clovre, heortclæfre, from Old English heortclǣfre, equivalent to heart + clover.

A flowering plant (Medicago arabica) in the pea and bean family Fabaceae native to the Mediterranean basin but now found throughout the world.


rice bean

Vigna umbellata
Vigna umbellata#Translingual

A bean plant of species Vigna umbellata, a food and fodder crop of Asia.


anjan

anjan (countable and uncountable, plural anjans)

The anjan tree is found in isolated patches in dry areas of the subcontinent and is the source of one of India's most durable timbers.

2000, Subhadra Menon, Pallava Bagla, Aruna Ghose, Trees of India, page 78:

The present paper addresses the non-timber produce of anjan (Hardwickia binata).

2000, A.K. Bisaria, R. Tiwari, “Non Timber Produce of Anjan (Hardwickia binata)”, in Multipurpose Tree Species:

The anjan plantation was intercropped with clusterbean, cowpea, greengram and sesamum during kharif season of each year of study i.e. 2001-02 to 2003-04.

2007, Sunil Puri, Agroforestry: Systems and Practices, page 167:

A hardwood tree (Hardwickia binata) native to dry regions of the Indian subcontinent.


African locust bean

African locust bean (plural African locust beans)

Parkia biglobosa
Parkia biglobosa#Translingual

Any of various species of Parkia, a genus of trees in the legume family Fabaceae, especially Parkia biglobosa.


black gram

black gram (usually uncountable, plural black grams)

A bean from the seed of Vigna mungo, native to the Indian subcontinent.


bush vetch

bush vetch (usually uncountable, plural bush vetches)

A leguminous climing plant with lilac or blue flowers that grows in hedgerows, grasslands and roadsides; Vicia sepium.


Huang-ch'i

From Mandarin 黃芪／黄芪 (huángqí), Wade–Giles romanization: Huang²-chʻi².

The Chinese drug Huang-ch’i is in considerable repute all over China.

1906, “Huang-Ch’i”, in Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, number 1, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 382:

Huang-ch'i is one of the famous drug frequently used in the Chinese medicine. In recent years, many substitutes and adulterants for this drug have been found in the market, and the botanic origin of the genuine drug Huang-ch'i still remains unclear both in herbals and in recent literatures.

1964, Shiao Pei-Ken Feng Yu-Shou Cheng Ching-Yung Lou Tze-Ching, “BOTANICAL AND PHARMACOGNOSTICAL STUDIES OF THE CHENESE DRUG HUANG-CH'I——Ⅰ. IDENTIFICATION OF THE BOTANICAL ORIGINS AND REVIEW OF THE ANCIENT HERBALS”, in Acta Pharmaceutica:

Astragalus membranaceus (aka Huang ch'i) has been used widely for thousands of years throughout the Orient to stimulate the immune system.

1997 October, Nancy Spaulding-Albright, “A review of some herbal and related products commonly used in cancer patients”, in Journal of the American Dietetic Association, volume 97, number 10:

He wrote: “From distant Tibet they bring saffron and sal ammoniac; orange peel and litchis from Canton; mushrooms and huang ch'i from Mongolia; rhubarb from Szechuan, etc."

2012, Tao Feiya, “The Evolution of European Missionaries' Views on Chinese Medicine”, in Chinese Studies in History, volume 46, number 2:

A Chinese medicinal herb (Astragalus membranaceus)


bendee

Probably from a Queensland Aboriginal language.

On the flank of the rise the African buffel grass gave way to bare patches of red gravel between thin strands of sandalwood and bendee, spiky tussocks of purple wiregrass and buck spinifex.

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 47:

Acacia catenulata, a species of acacia tree endemic to some arid areas in Queensland and the Northern Territory, Australia.


Bambara nut

Bambara groundnut
Bambara groundnut#English


bundleflower

Any flowering plant of the genus Desmanthus, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, introduced elsewhere.


moth bean

Etymology tree
Prakrit *𑀫𑁄𑀝𑁆𑀞 (*mŏṭṭha)
Hindi मोठ (moṭh)bor.
English moth beanBorrowed from Hindi मोठ (moṭh), from Prakrit *𑀫𑁄𑀝𑁆𑀞 (*mŏṭṭha). See there for more.

etymon

Any legume of species Vigna aconitifolia.


kafferboom

(South Africa, now offensive) coral tree, especially Erythrina caffra


panga panga

From Swahili mpangapanga, possibly indirectly via a language of a colonial power.

A tree of the African species Millettia stuhlmannii, or its wood.


dholl

en-noun

dholl (countable and uncountable, plural dholls)

The next class of farinaceous foods are the Pulses, as peas, beans, and lentils of this country, and the dholls and grams of India.

As a reviver for exhausted soils dholl is one of the most effective things that can be grown on the Coast Lands.

1901 April 12, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 3, page 68:


gungo pea

Around Christmastime, Jamaicans use small brown and green gungo peas (also known as pigeon peas or congo peas), but the rest of the year, when gungo peas are not in season, they often substitute red kidney beans.

2005, Janice Hamilton, Jamaica in Pictures (Visual Geography Series), Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Company, →ISBN, page 55:


sengon

A tall tree, Paraserianthes falcataria, native to the Moluccas, New Guinea, and the Solomons, but widely cultivated elsewhere for its timber.


yellow acacia

A tall, fast-growing acacia, of species Acacia auriculiformis, native to Indonesia, Australia, and Papua New Guinea.


acle

An ironwood tree (Xylia xylocarpa); the hard wood of this tree


orchid tree

Any of several species in the genus Bauhinia, many of which are grown for their showy flowers.


katurai

Sesbania grandiflora
Sesbania grandiflora#Translingual


vegetable hummingbird

vegetable hummingbird (plural vegetable hummingbirds)

A tree with edible flowers, of the species Sesbania grandiflora.


khair

The tree Senegalia catechu from which cutch is obtained


algodoncillo

Bauhinia picta, a fabaceous plant found in Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela.


kabuli

The availability of a large number of resistant lines in desi and kabuli background should help breeders develop resistant and high-yielding cultivars. It was earlier believed that kabulis lack resistant genes to ascochyta blight but screening a large collection revealed many lines having a high level of resistance.

1984, M.C. Saxena, editor, Ascochyta Blight and Winter Sowing of Chickpeas:

Two distinct chickpea types, different in their morphology and used in different ways of processing have been described: desi and kabuli.

2018, Rajeev K. Varshney, The Chickpea Genome, page 108:

A particular variety of cultivated chickpea.


jamwood

The hard timber of the jam tree (Acacia acuminata).


Chinese rosewood

Chinese rosewood (usually uncountable, plural Chinese rosewoods)

Dalbergia odorifera
Dalbergia odorifera#Translingual

A Chinese tree with fragrant wood, Dalbergia odorifera.


lucky clover

A four-leaf clover, believed to bring good luck

Any four-leaf variant of the normally three-leaf species of clover of genus Trifolium


rosary pea

Abrus precatorius
Abrus precatorius#Translingual

A leguminous plant, of species Abrus precatorius, or its round, red, poisonous seeds which are sometimes used as beads.


Siberian pea-tree

Siberian pea-tree (plural Siberian pea-trees)

(botany) A species of legume, Caragana arborescens native to Siberia, parts of China and neighboring Mongolia and Kazakhstan.


gold mohur

Corruption of Hindi [Term?], influenced by mohur (“a gold coin”).

Caesalpinia pulcherrima
Caesalpinia pulcherrima#Translingual

(India) The fabaceous flowering plant Caesalpinia pulcherrima.


horseshoe vetch

horseshoe vetch (plural horseshoe vetches)

often Hippocrepis comosa specifically, tufted horseshoe vetch


earth pea

Vigna subterranea (Bambara groundnut, jugo bean)


Brazilian orchid tree

Brazilian orchid tree (plural Brazilian orchid trees)

Bauhinia forficata, a species of flowering tree.


desert pea

(botany) an Australian plant in the genus Swainsona, distinctive for its blood red leaf-like flowers


Brazilian cherry

Brazilian cherry (plural Brazilian cherries)

Any of several plants native to the New World tropics, with edible fruits:

Eugenia brasiliensis, endemic to southern Brazil.

Hymenaea courbaril
Hymenaea courbaril#Translingual

Hymenaea courbaril (jatoba), in the legume family.


chinchilla wattle

chinchilla wattle (plural chinchilla wattles)

Acacia chinchillensis, a species of flowering plant native to Australia.


Tasmanian blackwood

Tasmanian blackwood (plural Tasmanian blackwoods)

He led the way into a small bedroom with green skirting and mustard yellow panels carved from Tasmanian blackwood.

2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 304

The four walls of the library's reading room are covered from the floor almost to the ceiling in Tasmanian-blackwood bookcases.

2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 167:

A tree, Acacia melanoxylon, native to eastern Australia and Tasmania, or (especially) the dark wood of this tree.


golden pea

(horticulture) Any of various Mirbelioids with small yellow flowers.


sallee wattle

The gate was five-barred, put together from crooked tree limbs, grey corkwood and sally wattle, iron coachbolts drilled through at the joints […].

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 127:

(Australia) Any of various Australian acacias, especially Acacia longifolia of southeastern Australia and Tasmania.


grey corkwood

(Australia) A flowering tree, Erythrina vespertilio, of north and northeastern Australia.


Egyptian thorn

Vachellia nilotica nilotica, a perennial tree native to Africa.


hedysarum

Any of the sweetvetches of the genus Hedysarum.


breadroot scurfpea

breadroot scurfpea (plural breadroot scurfpeas)


breadroot scurf pea

breadroot scurf pea (plural breadroot scurf peas)

breadroot scurfpea
breadroot scurfpea#English


coffee tree

Any tree, such as the Coffea arabica, which yields coffee beans.

Kentucky coffeetree
Kentucky coffeetree#English


blackbead

A tree or shrub of the genus Pithecellobium, native to the Americas.


copperpod

Either of two ornamental trees, Peltophorum pterocarpum of Southeast Asia or Peltophorum dubium of South America.


quamwood

Brazilian firetree
Brazilian firetree#English


Texas ebony

(botany) An evergreen tree of Texas and Mexico, Ebenopsis ebano.


Scotsman's rattle

Scotsman's rattle (plural Scotsman's rattles)


Sturt's desert pea

Sturt's desert pea (plural Sturt's desert peas)

Named after Charles Sturt (1795–1869), British officer and explorer, who recorded seeing large quantities of the flowers while exploring central Australia in 1844.

Innovative New York City floral artists such as Emily Thompson have long valued Australian plants, including spiky banksia, spidery Grevillea and Swainsona formosa — also known as Strut’s desert pea,^([sic]) which resembles a multieyed visitor from another galaxy — but local designers were raised to regard native species as mundane and overly rustic.

2022 September 23, Besha Rodell, “Australian Floral Designs That, at Long Last, Embrace Australian Flora”, in The New York Times Style Magazine:

A wildflower endemic to Australia, Swainsona formosa, known for its distinctive blood-red leaflike flowers, each with a bulbous black centre.


cacahuananche

From Spanish, from Nahuatl cacahuanantzin.

A tree originally from Mexico to Colombia, Gliricidia sepium, grown in the tropics worldwide to shade crops such as cacao and coffee, as well as for intercropping due to its nitrogen-fixing roots.


great northern bean

great northern bean (plural great northern beans)

A large navy bean that has a flattened shape similar to lima beans and a delicate flavor.


Brazilian firetree

Brazilian firetree (plural Brazilian firetrees)

Schizolobium parahyba, a tree species from tropical America, notable for its fast growth.


maash

From descendants of Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “mung bean”).


dragon's teeth

dragon's teeth pl (normally plural, singular dragon's tooth)

Coordinate term: Czech hedgehog

Experiments showed that twenty-five to fifty pounds of explosives often was needed to break a single dragon's tooth, and large pillboxes required half a ton.

2013, Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945 (The Liberation Trilogy; 3), New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 251:

“Dragon’s teeth have likely been installed between Mariupol and Nikolske village; and from northern Mariupol to Staryi Krym village. […] Dragon’s teeth have additionally been sent for the preparation of defensive fortifications in occupied Zaporizhzhia and Kherson,” the intelligence assessment said.

2022 November 8, Peter Beaumont, “Russia installs ‘dragon’s teeth’ barriers to slow advance of Ukrainian forces”, in The Guardian:

(military) Square-pyramidal fortifications of reinforced concrete to impede the movement of tanks and mechanised infantry.

Drachenzähne

fortifications to impede the movement of tanks

Coordinate term: shark's teeth

The new line markings – known internationally as dragon's teeth – are designed to make sure motorists know they are entering a 40kmh school zone. […] "It's our aim to get these new dragon's teeth out on our streets as quickly as possible, which is why we'll be enlisting the help of several different crews around the state to get started on this massive rollout."

2009 May 24, Lisa Carty, “Dragon's teeth to guard school zones”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, road transport) A series of triangular road surface markings painted on each side of a traffic lane, used for traffic calming or to alert drivers to a speed limit.

Lotus maritimus, a plant in the legume family.


chickling pea

chickling pea (countable and uncountable, plural chickling peas)


flame of the forest

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-flame of the forest.wav

Delonix regia, native to Madagascar; royal poinciana, flamboyant tree.

Delonix regia
Delonix regia#Translingual