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gumbi gumbi

gumbi gumbi noun: a shrub or small tree, Pittosporum angustifolium, growing in inland Australia, used by Aboriginal peoples for food and medicine.

Noun

gumbi gumbi

  1. (Australia) A shrub or small tree, Pittosporum angustifolium, growing in inland Australia, used by Aboriginal peoples for food and medicine.
    • Bo said, ‘Them bloody doctors are no good to you, old mate. You ought to come down to Ranna with us and get yourself a good dose of cumby cumby.’2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 122
    • A small shrub with little star-shaped yellow flowers and yellow/orange-skinned fruit, gumbi gumbi (Pittosporum angustifolium) is found throughout the drier areas of Australia […].2022, John Newton, Cooking With the Oldest Foods on Earth

Forms of gumbi gumbi

alternative formcumby cumby
alternative formgumby gumby

Questions about gumbi gumbi

What does gumbi gumbi mean?
Gumbi gumbi means a shrub or small tree, Pittosporum angustifolium, growing in inland Australia, used by Aboriginal peoples for food and medicine.
What part of speech is gumbi gumbi?
Gumbi gumbi is a noun.

Words near gumbi gumbi in the dictionary

  1. Gumbel distributions
  2. gumberoo
  3. gumberoos
  4. Gumbert
  5. Gumberts
  6. gumbi gumbi
  7. gumbies
  8. Gumbinnen
  9. Gumble
  10. gumbo
  11. gumbo limbo

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