Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Egyptian or black bean, Dolichos Lablab, a native of India, widely cultivated, and naturalized in most warm countries.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) an East Indian name for several twining leguminous plants related to the bean, but commonly applied to the hyacinth bean (
Dolichos Lablab ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
twining leguminous plants related to thebean , especially the hyacinth bean.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one species: hyacinth bean
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Examples
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Commonly called the lablab bug or globular stink bug, it's pea-sized and brownish with a wide posterior.
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Nourishing the Planet found that researchers, nongovernmental organizations and farmers are rediscovering traditional diets and improving the availability and cultural acceptance of nutritious indigenous vegetables -- like moringa and lablab.
Danielle Nierenberg: The Nutritional and Economic Potential of Vegetables
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Nourishing the Planet found that researchers, nongovernmental organizations and farmers are rediscovering traditional diets and improving the availability and cultural acceptance of nutritious indigenous vegetables -- like moringa and lablab.
Danielle Nierenberg: The Nutritional and Economic Potential of Vegetables
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Good crops to consider include clover, chicory, Austrian winter peas, brassicas such as rape, lablab, cow peas, wheat, and mixtures from wildlife seed companies.
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Good crops to consider include clover, chicory, Austrian winter peas, brassicas such as rape, lablab, cow peas, wheat, and mixtures from wildlife seed companies.
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Good crops to consider include clover, chicory, Austrian winter peas, brassicas such as rape, lablab, cow peas, wheat, and mixtures from wildlife seed companies.
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Embu: njavi, njabi nzavi English: hyacinth bean, bonavist bean, lablab bean Giriama: mpupu Kamba: mbumbu, ngiima, nzavi
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ECHO's seedbank began in 1981 with the top recommendations of tropical plant specialist Dr. Frank Martin-quail grass, amaranths, tropical pumpkins, lablab beans, tropical lettuce, and more.
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The best of such crops are legumes, including the vigorous velvet bean and lablab bean.
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We have plenty of lablab beans, pigeon peas and leucaena, including a variety that is hopefully less toxic because it is low in mimosine.
bilby commented on the word lablab
Lablab purpureus.
October 15, 2011