An out-of-date and now derogatory term applied to people of disordered mind, because lunacy was supposed at one time to be largely in?uenced by the moon. (See MENTAL ILLNESS.)... lunatic
Habitat: Native to tropical America; cultivated throughout India.
English: Double Bean, Lima Bean, Burma Bean.Ayurvedic: Shimbi.Unani: Lobiyaa, Sem.
Action: Seeds—astringent. Used as a diet in fever. The shoots and pods from Manipur are reported to contain alkaloids, saponins and flavonoids.... phaseolus lunatus
a bone of the wrist (see carpus). It articulates with the capitate and hamate bones in front, with the radius behind, and with the triquetral and scaphoid at the sides.... lunate bone
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