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muthua

muthua adjective: characteristic of African termites.

Adjective

muthua (not comparable)

  1. characteristic of African termites
    • 2018 — Steven Barnes, (2018) "Danakil" (Ch. 10), in Whose Future is It? : Cellarius Stories, Volume 1. Cellarius, Ed., New York: 2018, →ISBN.
      The refugee tents had sprouted on the desert plain like toadstools in the forest, or the muthua termite mounds at the foot of the eastern mountains.

Origin of muthua

Cf. Kikuyu mũthũa.

Questions about muthua

What does muthua mean?
Muthua means characteristic of African termites.
What part of speech is muthua?
Muthua is an adjective.

Words near muthua in the dictionary

  1. muthi
  2. Muthill
  3. muthis
  4. muthmannite
  5. Muths
  6. muthua
  7. muti
  8. muti murder
  9. muti murders
  10. mutic
  11. muticous

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