maloga bean
English
Etymology
From Mayi-Thakurti malaka.
Noun
maloga bean (plural maloga beans)
- (Australia) The pencil yam, Vigna lanceolata.
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 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.
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 294: