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miombos

miombos is the plural of miombo.

Meaning of miombo

Noun

miombo (countable and uncountable, plural miombos)

  1. (countable) Any tree of the genus Brachystegia, native to tropical Africa
  2. (uncountable) Woodland composed of such trees.
    • As if the anti-semites would let me forget! They have been killing Jews in the miombo ever since the drought began.1979, Clive Sinclair, Hearts of Gold, Penguin, published 1983, page 64

Questions about miombos

What is miombos the plural of?
Miombos is the plural of miombo.

Words near miombos in the dictionary

  1. miogeosyncline
  2. miogeosynclines
  3. miombo
  4. miombo tit
  5. miombo tits
  6. miombos
  7. Mioritic
  8. mioses
  9. miosis
  10. miotic
  11. miotics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miombos (page history and authors); miombo (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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