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Kingungu

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Portuguese definitions

  1. 1
    Snorer; one who snores.
  2. 2
    That has resonance.
  3. 3
    That produces noise.
  4. 4
    Echo; repeated sound.
  5. 5
    Place where the echo is produced.
  6. 6
    chorography
    District in the village of Caxito, civil circumscription of Dande, district and province of Luanda.
  7. 7
    zool. Large bird of the penelopid family, so called on account of its voice resembling a hoarse, mournful and prolonged moan.
    Examples
    • 💬kingungu 'a-njila
  8. 8
    Wild turkey.
  9. 9
    Toucan.
  10. 10
    Vulturid bird of prey.
    Examples
    • 💬kingungu 'a-xitu
  11. 11
    Condor.
  12. 12
    Bone-breaker; lammergeier.
  13. 13
    Vulture.
  14. 14
    figurative
    Rapacious man.
  15. 15
    botany
    Tree of the legume family (Brachystegia rizomatosa), with hard timber.

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