mobola
/məˈbəʊlə/South African
noun
In full mobola plum. Either of two trees of southern Africa, Parinari curatellifolia and P. capensis (family Chrysobalanaceae); the edible plumlike fruit of these trees.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in David Livingstone (1813–1873), explorer and missionary. From a form in a Bantu language; compare Ndebele mbola, Tswana mola, Venda muvhula, etc.
- excrescent
- excreta
- excrete
- excreter
- excretion
- excretive
- excretory
- excruciate
- excruciating
- excruciatingly
- excruciation
- exculpate
- exculpation
- tubercle
- tubercle bacillus
- tubercle bacterium
- tubercled
- tubercle-infected
- tubercle of Montgomery
- tubercular
- tubercularisation
- tubercularization
- tubercularly
- tuberculate
- tuberculated