Rice bean: 1 definition
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Rice bean means something in biology. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Rice bean in English is the name of a plant defined with Vigna umbellata in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Phaseolus riccardianus Ten. (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Flora Japonica (1784)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Bull. Nat. Sci. Mus. (1953)
· Journal of Japanese Botany (1969)
· Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
· Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (1794)
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Ends with: Licorice bean.
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Search found 4 books and stories containing Rice bean; (plurals include: Rice beans). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
The Jataka tales [English], Volume 1-6 (by Robert Chalmers)
Jataka 115: Anusāsika-jātaka < [Book I - Ekanipāta]
The Devi Bhagavata Purana (by Swami Vijñanananda)
The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
Buddha Chronicle 1: Dīpaṅkarā Buddhavaṃsa < [Chapter 9 - The chronicle of twenty-four Buddhas]
Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra
Chapter VII - On the Four Aspects < [Section One]