'Bean caper' definitions:
Definition of 'bean caper'
From: WordNet
noun
Perennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers [syn: bean caper, Syrian bean caper, Zygophyllum fabago]
Definition of 'Bean caper'
From: GCIDE
- Bean caper \Bean" ca`per\ (Bot.) A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bean caper'
From: GCIDE
- Caper \Ca"per\, n. [F. c[^a]pre, fr. L. capparis, Gr. ?; cf. Ar. & Per. al-kabar.]
- 1. The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush, caper tree. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The Capparis spinosa is a low prickly shrub of the Mediterranean coasts, with trailing branches and brilliant flowers; -- cultivated in the south of Europe for its buds. The Capparis sodada is an almost leafless spiny shrub of central Africa (Soudan), Arabia, and southern India, with edible berries. [1913 Webster]
- Bean caper. See Bran caper, in the Vocabulary.
- Caper sauce, a kind of sauce or catchup made of capers. [1913 Webster]