Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

maloga bean

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mal-o-ga bean
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The pencil yam, Vigna lanceolata.

Australian usage

Example Sentences

"[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."

Etymology

From Mayi-Thakurti malaka.

Word Breakdown

Root: malaka

Usage

Australian usage

Inflected Forms

maloga beans (plural)

Questions

What does maloga bean mean?: The pencil yam, Vigna lanceolata.
Where does maloga bean come from?: From Mayi-Thakurti malaka.

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