Wikipedia
Mopani can be:
- Colophospermum mopane, a tree species found in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, Angola and Malawi
- Gonimbrasia belina, a worm that lives in the mopani (mopane) tree
- Mopani District Municipality, South Africa
- Mopani Copper Mine, a copper mining company
Usage examples of "mopani".
She had a packet of some sort in her hand and was extracting what looked like a Mopani worm from within it.
The ground rose, so that we had a sight of the distant Lebombo hills to the east, and mopani bushes began to appear--a sure sign of a healthier country.
While amongst the mopani and masasa trees there was the occasional silver-grey flash of a running kudu, with his long corkscrew horns laid flat along his back.
The msasa forests had given way to mopani and giant swollen baobabs that flourished in the heat, and the old bull could sense the water ahead and he rumbled thirstily deep in his belly.
He set the women to building the smoking racks and plaiting baskets of mopani bark, others he ordered to gather wood for the fires.
It was totally overgrown, elephant had pushed mopani trees down like primitive road-blocks, and heavy rain had washed it out.
The tiny mopani bees plagued them during the day, clouding around their mouths and nostrils and eyes in their persistent search for moisture, and in the nights the mosquitoes from the stagnant pools in the valleys took over from them.
In the centre of the village stood a setenghi, an airy open-sided hut of white mopani poles, and a roof of neat thatch.
He knew he was not going to reach the mopani and he whirled to face the enraged bull.
The msasa forests had given way to mopani and giant swollen baobabs that ns the flourished in the heat, and the old bull could se e water ahead and he rumbled thirstily deep in his belly.
He picked the butcher gangs from those who were armed with axe and pan ga He set the women to building the smoking racks and plaiting baskets of mopani bark, others he ordered to gather wood for the fires.
It was totally overgrown, elephant had pushed mopani trees down like primitive road-blocks, and heavy rains had washed it out.
Tungata propped his rifle against a mopani trunk, and opened the knife.
He broke a bunch of leaves off the nearest mopani sapling and scrubbed his hands with it.
They followed it southwards still, passing within a few kilometres of the lonely monument in the mopani forest which marks the spot where Allan Wilson and his patrol made their last heroic but futile stand against the impi of Gandang, son of Mzilikazi, brother of the last Matabele.