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1. Kavirondo, n. View full entry 1870
...The name of two Kenyan peoples, one Nilotic (cf. Luo), one Bantu (also called Wa-Kavirondo); a member of these peoples; any of the Nilotic and Bantu languages spoken by these...
2. mvule, n. View full entry 1858
...In East Africa: the iroko tree, Milicia (or Chlorophora) excelsa (also mvule tree); the hardwood timber of this tree, used esp. in cabinetmaking, building,...
3. Nuer, adj. and n. View full entry 1850
...Of, relating to, or designating an African people of south-eastern Sudan and Ethiopia (see sense B. 1 or their Nilotic language (see sense B. 2)....
4. Otjiherero, n. View full entry 1855
...The Bantu language spoken by the Herero people of Namibia, Botswana, and Angola. Also called Herero....
5. Pullo, n. and adj. View full entry 1836
...A member of a widely scattered people of north-western sub-Saharan Africa; (also) the Niger-Congo language of this people; = Fulah...
