miombo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Bemba miombo, plural of muombo.

Noun

miombo (countable and uncountable, plural miombos)

1. (countable) Any tree of the genus Brachystegia, native to tropical Africa
2. (uncountable) Woodland composed of such trees. [from 19th c.]
   • 1979, Clive Sinclair, Hearts of Gold, Penguin, published 1983, page 64:

     As if the anti-semites would let me forget! They have been killing Jews in the miombo ever since the drought began.

Derived terms

• miombo tit

Anagrams

• biomom

Spanish

Noun

miombo m (plural miombos)

1. miombo