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mbunas

mbunas is the plural of mbuna.

Meaning of mbuna

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

Questions about mbunas

What is mbunas the plural of?
Mbunas is the plural of mbuna.

Words near mbunas in the dictionary

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

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