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单词 miombo
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miombon.

Brit. /mɪˈɒmbəʊ/, U.S. /maɪˈɑmboʊ/
Forms: 1800s– miombo, 1900s– miomba, 1900s– myombo.
Origin: A borrowing from Swahili. Etymon: Swahili myombo.
Etymology: < Swahili myombo, muyombo < Nyamwezi myombo (plural miombo).In Swahili and Nyamwezi pronunciation the sequence -mb- represents a prenasalized voiced labial plosive.
Any of several trees of the genus Brachystegia (family Caesalpiniaceae ( Leguminosae)) of tropical Africa. Also: open woodland dominated by these and related trees, esp. in Tanzania.
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1864 J. A. Grant Walk across Afr. vi. 88 The wands from the Miombo, a kind of banyan, afford the natives the fibre which they attach to their wool.
1910 Encycl. Brit. XI. 772/2 The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba), miomba, tamarisk, copal tree..are frequent [in German East Africa].
1934 Jrnl. Ecol. 22 220 A strip of ‘Miombo’ through which a narrow, fairly shallow ravine..was running.
1948 Cape Argus 3 Dec. 5/4 Surrounded by uninhabited miombo bush.
1959 R. W. J. Keay in Vegetation Map Afr. Explanatory Notes 9/1 In these woodlands, commonly known by the vernacular name ‘myombo’, several species of Brachystegia..are dominant.
1966 C. A. W. Guggisberg S.O.S. Rhino iii. 53 Black rhinoceroses frequent savannah country, mopane and miombo forests, bushveld and dry thornbush.
1970 A. T. Semple Grassland Improvement i. 14 African farmers have found that their ground-water supplies improve when they extend their settlements in the ‘miombo’ (Brachystegia woodland).
1991 Jrnl. Refugee Stud. 4 251 Both sites..form part of the designated Ugalla game and forest reserves, composed of miombo (Brachystegia—Julbernadia) woodlands which are infested by the tsetse-fly.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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