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‖ muvule|muːˈv(j)uːliː|
Also mvula, mvule, mvuli.
[a. Luganda muvule, Kiswahili mvule.]
The East African name for iroko. Also attrib.
1911Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 397/1 The largest timber tree [in Tanganyika] is the mvule, which attains vast dimensions, its trunk supplying the natives with the dug-out canoes with which they navigate the lake. 1940W. J. Eggeling Indigenous Trees of Uganda Protectorate 131 Muvule is a tree of great importance to the timber trade of Uganda. 1947E. African Ann. 1946–7 82/1 In the shade of an immense mvuli tree, an old man..is sitting. 1962Times 9 Oct. (Uganda Suppl.) p. viii/4 Giant muvule trees (African teak). 1966B. Kimenye Kalasanda Revisited 77 Hunched over the heavy, old-fashioned mvule desk, they set about answering the numerous personal questions. 1966C. Sweeney Scurrying Bush ii. 31 Here and there a Mvule tree soared upwards.., the smooth, sheer trunks branchless for the first sixty or seventy feet. 1973Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 2 May 1/7 Livingstone's heart was buried under a mvula tree in Chipundu. |