miombo

Borrowed from Bemba miombo, plural of muombo.

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.

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• biomom

miombo m (plural miombos)

1. miombo