Definition of "mopane" [mopane]

• A tree, Colophospermum mopane, native to Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, Angola and Malawi (noun)
• The mopame worm or mopame moth Gonimbrasia belina (noun)

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• "Her track led us out of the mopane woods where we began and into the open."
• "As we sat around a mopane-wood fire, toasting dung beetles for supper, the talk turned to the Carter administration, then in its second year and setting new records for ineptitude."
• "The valley floor is dominated by mopane Colophospermum mopane woodlands or dry highly deciduous thickets known as jesse."