BEAN CAPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bean caper mean? 

• BEAN CAPER (noun)
  The noun BEAN CAPER has 1 sense:

1. perennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers

  Familiarity information: BEAN CAPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEAN CAPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bean caper; Syrian bean caper; Zygophyllum fabago

Hypernyms ("bean caper" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("bean caper" is a member of...):

genus Zygophyllum; Zygophyllum (usually tropical herbs or shrubs having ill-smelling foliage and flower buds that are used as capers: bean capers)