maloga bean
English
editEtymology
editFrom Mayi-Thakurti malaka.
Noun
editmaloga bean (plural maloga beans)
- (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.