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"Phaseolus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... steals out from the forest in the night, and feeds in the rice fields bordering on the hills. The Cucis give no grain to their cattle. With us (at Chatgaon) the tame Gayals feed on Calai (phaseolus max); but as our hills abound with shrubs, it has not been remarked what particular kind of grass ...
— Delineations of the Ox Tribe • George Vasey
... stand alone, they succeed in the struggle by making use of other plants as supports. He showed that the great class of tendril- and root-climbers which do not depend on twining round a pole, like a scarlet-runner, but on attaching themselves as they grow upwards, effect an economy. Thus a Phaseolus has to manufacture a stem three feet in length to reach a height of two feet above the ground, whereas a pea "which had ascended to the same height by the aid of its tendrils, was but little longer than the height reached." ("Climbing Plants" ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others |
Words linked to "Phaseolus" : Phaseolus caracalla, common bean plant, sieva bean, frijol, Phaseolus angularis, rosid dicot genus, Papilionoideae, Phaseolus aureus, common bean, green bean, Phaseolus limensis, Phaseolus vulgaris, tepary bean, kidney bean, butter-bean plant, Phaseolus acutifolius latifolius, subfamily Papilionoideae, lima bean, wax bean, genus Phaseolus, lima bean plant, butter bean, frijole |
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