gully bean

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gully bean

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

noun gully beans

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.

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@misc{gully_bean_2026,
  title = {gully bean},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gully%20bean},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}