msasa

English

Etymology

From Shona musasa.

Noun

msasa (plural msasas)

1. A tree of Southern Africa, Brachystegia spiciformis. [from 20th c.]
   • 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 285:

     From a big msasa tree that shaded the veranda a pigeon was cooing regularly.

Anagrams

• Assam, Massa, Samas, amass, massa

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Swahili

Noun

msasa (m-mi class, plural misasa)

1. sandpaper (paper coated with abrasive material)
2. a hookthorn tree (Senegalia caffra)