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In the distance a lion growled, and much closer monkeys shrieked in the cluster of palm and waterberry trees lining the river.
Hollywood Husband Contract Wife Porter, Jane 2006
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And there they were, a huge herd clustered around a grove of waterberry trees.
Hollywood Husband Contract Wife Porter, Jane 2006
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Wolf demanded, stopping beneath one of the many large evergreen waterberry trees shadowing the riverbank.
Hollywood Husband Contract Wife Porter, Jane 2006
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English: waterberry, water pear Kamba: muvuena, muvueni Kikuyu: mukoe Kipsigis: lemecwhet, lamaiyat Luhya (Bukusu): kamatekesi, kumutekesi (plural), kumusemwa, busemwa (fruit), kumusitole, busitole Luhya (Tachoni): omutekesi amatekesi (fruit), omusitoleobustole
Chapter 7 1999
qroqqa commented on the word waterberry
Living on snails and waterberries,
Marvelling for the first time
At the luminous island, the light.
—Lawrence Durrell, 'Fangbrand'
March 21, 2009
sionnach commented on the word waterberry
Ooooh that Lawrence Durrell was such a naughty child. Always putting snails and scorpions and snakes in those Egyptians' beds. Tried to open a petting zoo down Alexandria way, I heard.
March 21, 2009