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Men⋅de

  [men-dee]
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–noun, plural -des, (especially collectively) -de for 1.
1. a member of a people living in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
2. a Niger-Congo language of the Mande branch spoken by the Mende people.

Lo⋅zère

  [law-zer]
–noun
a department in S France. 74,825; 2000 sq. mi. (5180 sq. km). Capital: Mende.
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Men·de   (měn'dē, -dā)   
n.   pl. Mende or Men·des

  1. A language of the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo language family spoken in southern Sierra Leone and eastern Liberia.

  2. A member of a Mende-speaking people.


[Mende mεnde, tribal name.]
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Mende

people of Sierra Leone, including also a small group in Liberia; they speak a language of the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo family. The Mende grow rice as their staple crop, as well as yams and cassava. Cash crops include cocoa, ginger, peanuts (groundnuts), and palm oil and kernels. They practice shifting agriculture, with the heads of kin groups allocating land to individual households, which perform most of the work. Men fell trees and clear the fields, and women weed

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