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noungungo pea (plural gungo peas)
plural gungo peas
- JamaicaPigeon pea.
Around Christmastime, Jamaicans use small brown and green gungo peas (also known as pigeon peas or congo peas), but the rest of the year, when gungo peas are not in season, they often substitute red kidney beans.
2005, Janice Hamilton, Jamaica in Pictures (Visual Geography Series), Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Company, →ISBN, page 55
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