bean-caper
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
The flower buds are used as capers.
Noun
bean-caper (plural bean-capers)
- Any perennial herb of genus Zygophyllum
- especially Zygophyllum fabago (Syrian bean-caper), native to Asia and Eastern Europe, introduced and invasive in arid regions elsewhere.
References
- Zygophyllum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “bean-caper”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “bean-caper”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- Zygophyllum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Zygophyllum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons