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Phaseolus   Listen
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Phaseolus  n.  (Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants, including the Lima bean, the kidney bean, the scarlet runner, etc. See Bean.





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... Darwin himself is perhaps even more instructive. He says: "On 24th May 1864 there was a severe frost in Kent, and two rows of scarlet runners (Phaseolus multiflorus) in my garden, containing 390 plants of the same age and equally exposed, were all blackened and killed except about a dozen plants. In an adjoining row of Fulmer's dwarf bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace


Words linked to "Phaseolus" :   frijole, Papilionoideae, frijol, lima bean plant, common bean plant, Phaseolus limensis, kidney bean, Phaseolus aconitifolius, Phaseolus caracalla, sieva bean, tepary bean, Phaseolus multiflorus, common bean, wax bean


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