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Ngungu

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Portuguese definitions

  1. 1
    • Superior; leader; of high position or rank
    • Commander; chief
    • The greatest of all
    • fig. Governor.
    Examples
    • 💬uná muene o ngungu
  2. 2
    botany
    Tree of great hardness, family Leguminosae (Erytropholeum africanum), used in construction
  3. 3
    chorography
    Village and post of the civil circumscription of Novo Redondo, district of Cuanza Sul, province of Benguela, with 7,063 inhabitants.
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Portuguese definitions

  1. 1
    zoology
    • Conirostr bird the size of the «bico de lacre»
    • Flock of these birds. Congregation of birds
  2. 2
    • Large number of people or beings of the same species
    • fig. Glutton
    • Devastator
  3. 3
    Wild turkey. V. kingungu á-njila.
    Examples
    • 💬ngúngu 'a-njila
  4. 4
    • Vulture
    • Devourer of flesh. V. kingungu 'a xitu.
    Examples
    • 💬ngúngu 'a-xitu
  5. 5
    bot. Fruit or bark of the mafumeira. V. mifuma.
    Examples
    • 💬ngúngu mufuma

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