Entada, a genus of leguminous climbing shrubs (sub-order Minosææ) remarkable for their great pods. The egg-sized seeds of E. gigalobium are carried by the Gulf Stream not only to the Canaries, but to Nova Zembla, where their occurrence suggested the name of 'Chestnut Bay.'
Entada
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 386
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