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n. 1 A tree, (taxlink Colophospermum mopane species noshow=1), native to Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, Angola and Malawi 2 The (vern: mopane worm) or (vern: mopane moth) (taxlink Gonimbrasia belina species noshow=1)
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Colophospermum mopane, commonly called mopane, mophane, mopani, balsam tree, butterfly tree, or turpentine tree, is a tree in the legume family ( Fabaceae), that grows in hot, dry, low-lying areas, in elevation, in the far northern parts of southern Africa. The tree only occurs in Africa and is the only species in genus Colophospermum. Its distinctive butterfly-shaped (bifoliate) leaf and thin seed pod make it easy to identify. In terms of human use it is, together with camel thorn and leadwood, one of the three regionally important firewood trees.
Mopane may refer to:
- Colophospermum mopane, the mopane tree, a plant species
- Guibourtia coleosperma, the false mopane, a tree species
and also:
- Gonimbrasia belina, the mopane worm, a butterfly species
- Plebeina hildebrandti, the mopane bee, a bee species
Usage examples of "mopane".
A great wall of water gushing brownly through the scrubby low mopane woodland makes a roaring sound like a thousand Cape buffalo galloping over hollow ground.
Seven hundred and fifty thousand mostly flat acres of scrubby, bitter grass, mopane woodland, acacia thorn trees, thorny scrubs, and the occasional rocky outcrop.
We eat and drink without talking and then silently pack up the debris of our picnic before the mopane bees and wasps and ants are attracted.
Thompson let Vanessa and me go ahead, helping us up over the steep sections of rock until at last we were panting, itching with sweat, on top of the world, able to see as far as the river over the top of the gray-hot haze and the mopane trees.
Huy marched the Sixth Ben-Amon to the garrison fort on the banks of the great river at Sett, and here he put the legion into camp in a forest of mopane trees which would screen them from observers on the opposite bank.
The canvas camp-chairs were set around the camp-fire, great logs of leadwood and mopane which were kept burning day and night.
The hide was built of mopane poles and thatch, and was a comfortable little tree-house.
It was a silence that whispered with tiny intimate sounds: the gentle sigh of the breeze in the leaves above their heads, the stir of a bird in the undergrowth along the river, the far-off booming shout of a bull baboon that echoed faintly along the rocky cliffs at the head of the valley and the tiny ticking sounds of the termite legions gnawing away at the dry mopane poles on which they sat.
He braked the truck and turned off the track, following the leading Toyota with Sean at the wheel down to the pools in the mopane forest.
Sir Clarence took an accomplished double, then set his shotgun against the trunk of a mopane tree and crossed to where she stood.
And it is irritating to set out to fish in a well-known lake only to find that the lake has turned into a grassy plain, around the edges of which the mopane trees are already springing up.