gumbi gumbi

English

Alternative forms

• cumby cumby, gumby gumby

Noun

gumbi gumbi

1. (Australia) A shrub or small tree, Pittosporum angustifolium, growing in inland Australia, used by Aboriginal peoples for food and medicine.
   • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 122:

     Bo said, ‘Them bloody doctors are no good to you, old mate. You ought to come down to Ranna with us and get yourself a good dose of cumby cumby.’

   • 2022, John Newton, Cooking With the Oldest Foods on Earth:

     A small shrub with little star-shaped yellow flowers and yellow/orange-skinned fruit, gumbi gumbi (Pittosporum angustifolium) is found throughout the drier areas of Australia […] .