conkerberry

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English

conkerberry shrub
conkerberry (fruit)

Etymology

Perhaps from Mayi-Kulan / Mayi-Yapi ganggabarri, with the spelling influenced by conker + berry.[1]

Noun

conkerberry (plural conkerberries)

  1. A large shrub of the dogbane family: Carissa spinarum, the "bush plum".
  2. The berry of this shrub.

References

  1. ^ Philip A. Clarke, Aboriginal Plant Collectors (2008, →ISBN, page 56: "One example is 'conkerberry', which may have come from the term ganggabarri of the Mayi-Yapi and Mayi-Kulan languages spoken in the Cloncurry River district"