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

Word History and Origins

Origin of mopani¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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