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kuka|ˈkuːkə|
[Native name.]
A name used in Ghana for Khaya senegalensis; also kuka-tree; see khaya.
1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 153/2 Kuka [a Central African town]..received its name from a kuka or monkey bread tree (Adansonia digitata), which attracted the attention of the settlers as a rare thing in the district. 1924Blackw. Mag. Sept. 351/1 A kuka-tree is a stumpy smooth, grey-barked thing of enormous girth. 1932J. Cary Aissa Saved xliii. 230 We should go there by the kuka tree. 1961F. R. Irvine Woody Plants of Ghana 523 Khaya senegalensis... Kuka (local name). |