mopani
mopane
/ (mɒˈpɑːnɪ) /
a leguminous tree, Colophospermum (or Copaifera) mopane, native to southern Africa, that is highly resistant to drought and produces very hard wood: Also called: ironwood
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How to use mopani in a sentence
And then beyond—across the plains, grown with mopani bush—the road was all deep sand.
The Matabele Campaign | R. S. S. Baden-PowellThen there was silence again in the mopani forest, where lay three motionless human bodies; dead silence, for—hours, it seemed.
In the Whirl of the Rising | Bertram Mitford“Peters picked him up in the mopani veldt, down Pagadi way, and brought him on,” said Lamont.
In the Whirl of the Rising | Bertram MitfordAnd now, through its lifting folds, rises in dark loom the jagged silhouette of the mopani stockade.
In the Whirl of the Rising | Bertram MitfordFor a sudden fusillade had opened on that side, and the chips were flying wildly from the mopani poles.
In the Whirl of the Rising | Bertram Mitford
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