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naras

naras noun: a spiny shrub, Acanthosicyos horridus, growing in Namibia and the Kalahari Desert, or the melon-like fruit that it produces.

Noun

naras

  1. (South Africa) A spiny shrub, Acanthosicyos horridus, growing in Namibia and the Kalahari Desert, or the melon-like fruit that it produces.
    • The Bay people catch and eat fish after the ‘naras is out of season, and the carcases of whales killed by the crews of whaling ships, afford them savoury repasts […].1840, Barnabas Shaw, Memorials of South Africa, page 185
    • in this river course also grows a remarkable plant, the Naras, which sends its roots deep […].1951, Austin Roberts, The Mammals of South Africa, page xxix

Proper noun capitalized: NARAS

NARAS

  1. (abbreviation, historical, initialism) Initialism of National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Forms of naras

alternative formnara
alternative form'naras
alternative formnarra

Origin of naras

From Khoekhoe !naras (“naras fruit”), !narab (“naras plant”).

Questions about naras

What does naras mean?
Naras means a spiny shrub, Acanthosicyos horridus, growing in Namibia and the Kalahari Desert, or the melon-like fruit that it produces.
What part of speech is naras?
Naras can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near naras in the dictionary

  1. Naranpura
  2. Narantaka
  3. naraoiid
  4. naraoiids
  5. Narara
  6. naras
  7. Narasimha
  8. Narasimhan
  9. Narasimhans
  10. narasin
  11. Narathiwat

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