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mopani

/ mɒˈpɑːnɪ /

noun

  1. a leguminous tree, Colophospermum (or Copaifera ) mopane , native to southern Africa, that is highly resistant to drought and produces very hard wood Also calledironwood
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mopani1

C19: from Setswana (a Bantu language) mo-pane
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Example Sentences

And then beyond—across the plains, grown with mopani bush—the road was all deep sand.

Then there was silence again in the mopani forest, where lay three motionless human bodies; dead silence, for—hours, it seemed.

“Peters picked him up in the mopani veldt, down Pagadi way, and brought him on,” said Lamont.

And now, through its lifting folds, rises in dark loom the jagged silhouette of the mopani stockade.

For a sudden fusillade had opened on that side, and the chips were flying wildly from the mopani poles.

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