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1. goree | gori, n.2 View full entry 1865
...A forked stick used by the Arabs to fasten slaves together by their necks. Also gori-stick....
2. lechwe, n. View full entry 1857
...A South African water-buck, Kobus leche....
3. Lunda, n.2 and adj. View full entry 1857
...A member of a people inhabiting areas of eastern Angola and northern Zambia, and the south-eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo....
4. marula, n. View full entry 1857
...A tree, Sclerocarya birreasubsp.caffra (family Anacardiaceae), found in tropical and subtropical central and southern Africa, which has dark green, glossy foliage and an edible yellow fruit...
5. mobola, n. View full entry 1857
...In full mobola plum. Either of two trees of southern Africa, Parinari curatellifolia and P. capensis (family Chrysobalanaceae); the edible plumlike fruit of these...
6. morena, n.2 View full entry 1856
...Esp. among speakers of the Sotho languages: a title of or respectful form of address used to a chief or (more generally) any person in authority. Hence: a chief, a master....
7. posho, n.1 View full entry a1873
...Daily rations given to soldiers, sailors, labourers, porters on safari, etc....
8. soko, n. View full entry 1870
...A species of anthropoid ape discovered by Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika....
9. ˈtampan, n. View full entry 1861
...A blood-sucking tick of the genus Ornithodorus, esp. O. moubata, the vector of African relapsing fever....
