maloga bean

English

Etymology

From Mayi-Thakurti malaka.

Noun

maloga bean (plural maloga beans)

1. (Australia) The pencil yam, Vigna lanceolata.
   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 294:

     [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.