alunqua
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Eastern Arrernte alangkwe, the name for the fruit.
Noun[edit]
alunqua (plural alunquas)
- A twining plant, Marsdenia australis, native to Australia.
- The fruit of the alunqua; bush cucumber, bush banana.
- 1937, Michael Terry, Sand and Sun: Two Gold-hunting Expeditions with Camels in the Dry Lands of Central Australia:
- Another common bush delicacy was the alunqua, some call it the bush cucumber.