Arbor Judæ.

Said to be so called because Judas Iscariot hanged himself thereon. This is one of those word-resemblances so delusive to etymologists. Judæ is the Spanish judʹia (a French bean), and Arbor Judæ is a corruption of Arbol Judia (the bean-tree), so called from its bean-like pods.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Arabian Nights (The)
Arabians
Arabic Figures
Arabs
Arachnē’s Labours
Araf, Al [the partition]
Araspes (in Jerusalem Delivered)
Aratos of Achæa
Arbaces
Arbor Day
Arbor Judæ
Arcades Ambo [Arcădes 3 syl.]
Arcadian
Arcadian Nightingales
Archangels
Arch-monarch of the World
Archers
Arches (The Court of)
Archeus
Archilochian Bitterness
Archimage