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.
Good to know
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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