horsebean

Noun

• large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States

• seed of the broad-bean plant

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Jerusalem thorn , Parkinsonia aculeata , broad bean , fava bean