geebung

geebung
/jee"bung/, n.
1. any of various small trees or shrubs of the genus Persoonia, native to Australia and New Zealand, having small white or yellow flowers and fleshy, edible fruit.
2. the fruit itself.
[1820-30; < Dharuk jí-bun]

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