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Swahili

mwegea

mweh-GEH-ah

How to say it

Swahilimwegeamweh-GEH-ahsoon
Englishsausage treesoon
Frencharbre à saucissessoon

Meaning

a tree whose long, sausage-shaped fruit hangs from its branches, a sausage tree.

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mwegea (sausage tree)

Examples

  • Mwegea una matunda marefu kama soseji.The sausage tree has long fruit shaped like sausages.
  • Je, matunda ya mwegea huliwa?Are the fruits of the sausage tree eaten?
  • Wanyamapori hupenda kukaa chini ya mwegea.Wild animals like to rest under the sausage tree.
  • Hatukuona mwegea popote msituni.We did not see a sausage tree anywhere in the forest.

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