bean caper

noun

: any of several perennial plants constituting the genus Zygophyllum and having usually ill-smelling foliage and flower buds that are used as capers

especially : a small shrub or tree (Z. fabago) of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia that has yellow 5-petaled flowers brick red at the base

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