Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki
Page number: 429
?*bene°
• plant species with thorns.
Note: KUL: bene ‘k.o. plant with thorns and a small, edible tuber, usually growing in rocky areas’; TOL (Youngman 1997: pers.comm.): bene ‘kind of vine with thorns’.