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kungu|ˈkʌŋguː|
Also kungo.
[Nyanja nkungu.]
A small East African gnat, Chaoborus edulis. Hence kungu cake, the bodies of large numbers of these gnats, compressed to form a cake.
1865D. & C. Livingstone Narr. Expedition Zambesi 373 A kungo cake, an inch thick..was offered to us. 1897H. H. Johnston Brit. Cent. Afr. 436 The ‘Kungu’ fly of Lake Nyasa. 1899D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. vii. 467 The kungu cake mentioned by Livingstone as used on Lake Nyassa is made from an Insect which occurs in profusion there, and is compressed into biscuit form. 1902H. H. Johnston Uganda Protectorate I. 413 The kungu fly has a soft little body, scarcely as large as that of a flea, with gauzy wings. 1964H. Oldroyd Nat. Hist. Flies pl. 30 (a) (caption) A piece of ‘kungu-cake’, made up entirely from the bodies of small midges, Chaoborus edulis, from an East African lake. |