Meaning of mama-pian | Babel Free

Definitions

The primary lesion caused by yaws, typically surrounded by other, smaller lesions.

Caribbean, no-plural, obsolete

Examples

“One ulcer is usually larger and fouler than the rest, and this is known by the negroes […] as the mama-pian, or mama yaw.”

“[T]he master-fungus being named mama-pian, or mother-yaw, as supposed to be the source or supply of the rest.”

“A large persistent yaw is sometimes known as the "mother," or "grandmother," or "mama-pian"[…]”

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