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Meaning of sosumba | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Noun. [B1]

Examples

“Sosumba. Solanum torvum Sw. For diarrhoea grate and boil the root. For a cold make a tea of the leaves. (White) The fruit makes a favorite breakfast dish cooked with codfish in place of akee fruit.”
“Salt cod cooked with the fruit of the Ackee or with its substitute, the Sosumba berry, is a favorite breakfast dish even upon the tables of the whites.”
“My friends would come from de States and say, 'Dey don't work sciences abroad.' But in Haiti dey use dis ting called sosumba to work science. And in Jamaica we eat sosumba! Dey call it gully beans. It grows out on a tree, ...”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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