gully bean

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fruit of a wild eggplant or susumber plant (Solanum torvum).
    — Preserves here featured a number of products in brine, namely gully beans, corn, carrot and breadfruit. Other exhibits here included pineapple, cucumber, pickle, castor oil, banana, vinegar, pepper pot soup in bottles.

词形变化

gully beans plural

词源

So called because the bushes grow wild, especially in gullies, and the bean-like fruits are used to season certain foods.
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