Limpopo
English
Etymology
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Proper noun
Limpopo
- A river in Africa that rises near Johannesburg and flows about 1,770 km (1,100 miles) to the Indian Ocean in Mozambique.
- 1912, Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child:
- Goodbye. I am going to the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.
- A province of South Africa which was originally part of Transvaal.
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