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gully bean

gully bean noun: a fruit of a wild eggplant or susumber plant (Solanum torvum).

Noun

gully bean (plural gully beans)

  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.1977, Farmer
    • They go up into the hills to pick gully beans, up into deep green spicy woods with the sun hot in dappled patches on the men's glistening backs, with strange birds screeching and goats neighing loudly in the afternoon air.2008, Jane Covernton, Cutlass Time, →ISBN, page 187

Forms of gully bean

pluralgully beans

Origin of gully bean

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

Questions about gully bean

What does gully bean mean?
Gully bean means a fruit of a wild eggplant or susumber plant (Solanum torvum).
What part of speech is gully bean?
Gully bean is a noun.
What is the plural of gully bean?
The plural of gully bean is gully beans.

Words near gully bean in the dictionary

  1. Gullos
  2. gulls
  3. gullwing
  4. gullwings
  5. gully
  6. gully bean
  7. gully beans
  8. gully eductor
  9. gully eductors
  10. gully emptier
  11. gully emptiers

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