miombo
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Bemba miombo, plural of muombo.
Noun
miombo (countable and uncountable, plural miombos)
- (countable) Any tree of the genus Brachystegia, native to tropical Africa
- (uncountable) Woodland composed of such trees.
- 1979, Clive Sinclair, Hearts of Gold, Penguin, published 1983, page 64:
- As if the anti-semites would let me forget! They have been killing Jews in the miombo ever since the drought began.
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Noun
miombo m (plural miombos)