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maroola

maroola is the alternative form of marula.

Meaning of marula

Noun

marula (plural marulas)

  1. A medium-sized dioecious tree, Sclerocarya birrea, indigenous to Southern Africa and West Africa.
    • They were between two marula trees.2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 87
  2. Its edible stone fruit, with light yellow skin and white flesh.
    • In the evenings, long drinks anticipate freshly caught fish [...] with a marinade of mazhanje juice or marula liqueur.2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 278

Forms of maroola

pluralmaroolas

Questions about maroola

What is maroola the alternative form of?
Maroola is the alternative form of marula.

Words near maroola in the dictionary

  1. Maroochy
  2. Maroochydore
  3. maroodi
  4. maroodis
  5. marool
  6. maroola
  7. maroolas
  8. maroon
  9. Maroon Bells
  10. Maroon Creek
  11. maroon cucumber

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maroola (page history and authors); marula (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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