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buffalo bean
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
the buffalo pea, Astragalus crassicarpus, a wild pea having yellow blossoms and a pod that is red and fleshy at first, becoming hard and brownish when dry.
Quotations
1920
I told him of our range-lilies and foxglove and buffalo-beans. . . .
1954
[We travelled] through the rolling parklands yellow with buffalo-beans. . . .
2
the fruit or "beans" of this plant.
See: buffalo apple
Quotations
1922
Who would think she had a letter from her mother asking if she was canning any buffalo beans?
1965
The coffee they served appeared to have been brewed from dinosaur bones or buffalo beans. . . .