Limpopo
English
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edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.). The province was named after the river.
Proper noun
editLimpopo
- A river in Africa that rises near Johannesburg and flows about 1,770 km (1,100 miles) to the Indian Ocean in Mozambique.
- 1912, Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child:
- Goodbye. I am going to the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.
- A province of South Africa which was originally part of Transvaal.
Translations
editAfrikaans
editProper noun
editLimpopo
- A province of South Africa
Italian
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