Definitions

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  • noun A tree, Colophospermum mopane, native to Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, Angola and Malawi
  • noun The mopame worm or mopame moth Gonimbrasia belina

Etymologies

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From Tswana mophane.

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Examples

  • Her track led us out of the mopane woods where we began and into the open.

    The Wire: David Petzal Tracks a Wounded Cape Buffalo 2009

  • As we sat around a mopane-wood fire, toasting dung beetles for supper, the talk turned to the Carter administration, then in its second year and setting new records for ineptitude.

    Odds and Ends 2008

  • The valley floor is dominated by mopane Colophospermum mopane woodlands or dry highly deciduous thickets known as jesse.

    Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas, Zimbabwe 2009

  • Major habitat types (e.g., mopane and miombo) and the geographic separation of populations of large mammals are used to discriminate ecoregions within this larger region.

    Zambezian flooded grasslands 2008

  • Miombo or mopane woodlands mostly surround these wetlands, although dry forest, secondary grasslands and Itigi thicket also occur locally.

    Zambezian flooded grasslands 2008

  • Major habitat types (e.g., mopane and miombo) and the geographic separation of populations of large mammals are used to discriminate ecoregions within this larger region.

    Western Zambezian grasslands 2008

  • This ecoregion is part of larger complex of Caesalpinoid woodland ecoregions that support wet and dry miombo, mopane, thicket, dry forests, '' Baikiaea '' woodland, and flooded grassland habitats, among others.

    Itigi-Sumbu thicket 2008

  • Located within the miombo and mopane woodlands of the Central African Plateau, Zambezian Flooded Grasslands are an anomaly of productivity and abundance in a landscape characterized by nutrient poor soil and vegetation.

    Zambezian flooded grasslands 2008

  • Major habitat types (e.g., mopane and miombo) and the geographic separation of populations of large mammals are used to discriminate ecoregions within this larger region.

    Itigi-Sumbu thicket 2008

  • This ecoregion is part of larger complex of Caesalpinoid woodland ecoregions that support wet and dry miombo, mopane, thicket, dry forests, Baikiaea woodland, and flooded grassland habitats, among others.

    Western Zambezian grasslands 2008

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