maloga bean

noun

The pencil yam, Vigna lanceolata.

OriginMayi-Thakurti malaka →
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Meanings

nounmaloga bean (plural maloga beans)

plural maloga beans

  1. AustraliaThe pencil yam, Vigna lanceolata.

    [T]he silent melaleuca trees and paperbark woodland, decorated for Christmas with bouquets of red mistletoe flowers and the sleepy olive vines of wild medicine and maloga beans.

    2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 294

Origin

  1. Mayi-Thakurtimalaka
  2. Englishmaloga bean

From Mayi-Thakurti malaka.

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APA

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Chicago

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