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mbuna

mbuna noun: one of a group of haplochromine cichlids from Lake Malawi.

Noun

mbuna (plural mbunas)

  1. One of a group of haplochromine cichlids from Lake Malawi.
    • The mbunas have suffered such local extinctions for a number of reasons. These include shifts in eating habits for the fisher folk who prefer eating mbunas and save the prime species for their market (in contrast to original beliefs that mbunas are not edible), habitate loss and fragementation...2014, Steve Donda, Fragmentation of Resource Management on the South East Arm of Lake Malawi: Dynamics Around Fisheries

Forms of mbuna

pluralmbunas

Origin of mbuna

Borrowed from Tonga (Malawi) mbuna (“cichlid”).

Questions about mbuna

What does mbuna mean?
Mbuna means one of a group of haplochromine cichlids from Lake Malawi.
What part of speech is mbuna?
Mbuna is a noun.
What is the plural of mbuna?
The plural of mbuna is mbunas.

Words near mbuna in the dictionary

  1. Mbuji-Mayi
  2. Mbukushu
  3. Mbulu
  4. Mbum
  5. Mbum-Day
  6. mbuna
  7. mbunas
  8. Mbunda
  9. Mbundu
  10. Mbunga
  11. MBUs

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