mopani

mopane

/ (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 called: ironwood

Origin of mopani

1
C19: from Setswana (a Bantu language) mo-pane

Words Nearby mopani

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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-Powell
  • Then 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 Mitford
  • And now, through its lifting folds, rises in dark loom the jagged silhouette of the mopani stockade.

    In the Whirl of the Rising | Bertram Mitford
  • For 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