sosumba

sosumba

English

Noun

sosumba (uncountable)

1. (rare) Alternative form of susumber
   • 1922, Publications of the Folk-Lore Foundation, page 27:

     Sosumba. Solanum torvum Sw. For diarrhoea grate and boil the root. For a cold make a tea of the leaves. (White) The fruit makes a favorite breakfast dish cooked with codfish in place of akee fruit.

   • 1927, Martha Warren Beckwith, Notes on Jamaican Ethnobotany

     Salt cod cooked with the fruit of the Ackee or with its substitute, the Sosumba berry, is a favorite breakfast dish even upon the tables of the whites.

   • 2006, Debbie Smoker, Adventures of Coconut Woman (→ISBN), page 119:

     My friends would come from de States and say, 'Dey don't work sciences abroad.' But in Haiti dey use dis ting called sosumba to work science. And in Jamaica we eat sosumba! Dey call it gully beans. It grows out on a tree, ...