Also 8 bonny-vis. [ad. It. buona vista good sight.] A species of tropical pulse (? Lablab vulgaris).
1700. W. King, Transactioneer. The Dr. resolves many Doubts and Difficulties … relating to … the Bonavists, and the Dildoe.
1750. G. Hughes, Barbados, 216. The Buona Vista commonly called Bonny-vis.
1883. N. D. Davis, Cavaliers & Roundheads in Barbados, 44. Bonavists are a species of kidney beans.
