Wiktionary
n. A medium-sized dioecious tree, (taxlink Sclerocarya birrea species noshow=1), indigenous to Southern Africa and West Africa.
Usage examples of "marula".
Blue trumpet flowers festooned the pillars of climbers that reached into the tops of the marulas, and from the valleys came the liquid call of the white-browed coucals, to join the sound of running water.
There was a sand-coloured army Land-Rover waiting under a huge marula tree off to one side of the strip, and three troopers saluted Peter Fungabera with a stamping of boots that raised dust and a slapping of rifle-butts.
Sally-Anne levelled out for an instant and flew for the marula, her wingtip almost touched its outermost branches, and immediately she threw the Cessna into an opposite turn, neatly placing the tree between them and the line of paratroopers on the airstrip behind them.
And the white-backed boar knew the old man too, almost as well as he knew the Misty Mountain and its ravines and streams, and the various species of wild fig and the marula trees that bore the sweetest fruit.
The final door was twice her height, dark red marula wood studded with copper rivets the size of her fist.
The num-num season Num-num time is a time of plenty in the forest for, in February, at the height of the rainy season, the prickly pears ripened, the wild plums lost their biting acidity as they too ripened, and the marulas were heavy with thousands of fruits that would drop in March.
There was a sand-coloured army Land-Rover waiting under a huge marula tree off to one side of the strip, and three troopers saluted Peter Fungabera with a stamping of boots that raised dust and a slapping of rifle-butts.