Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Calabar

Calabar , noun

A district on the west coast of Africa.
Collocations (1)
Calabar bean , The of a climbing legumious plant (Physostigma venenosum), a native of tropical Africa. It is highly poisonous. It is used to produce contraction of the pupil of the eye; also in tetanus, neuralgia, and rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.