HyperDic: bean_caper

English > 1 sense of the expression bean caper:
NOUNplantbean caper, Syrian bean caper, Zygophyllum fabagoperennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers
English > bean caper: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningperennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers.
SynonymsSyrian bean caper, Zygophyllum fabago
Member ofZygophyllum, genus Zygophyllumusually tropical herbs or shrubs having ill-smelling foliage and flower buds that are used as capers
Broadershrub, bushA low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

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