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musasas

musasa trees

noun moo-SAH-sahs Rare
Animals & Nature Plants

Usage Note

Musasas is the plural of musasa, a regional term for the Brachystegia spiciformis tree native to southern and central African woodlands, found in Spanish texts about Zimbabwean or Zambian ecology. It is a loanword from local Bantu languages. Outside ecological or regional contexts the word is very rare in Spanish.

Examples

"El paisaje estaba dominado por las musasas."

Natural Translation

The landscape was dominated by musasa trees.

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