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motlopi
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Borrowed from Tswana motlopi. The word is cognate with Afrikaans matoppie, Northern Sotho mohlopi, Sotho mohlopi, Venda muṱhobi.
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motlopi (複数形 motlopi または motlopis)
- The shepherd tree or shepherd's tree (Boscia albitrunca), an evergreen tree native to southern and tropical Africa which is one of the most important forage trees of the Kalahari.
- Synonyms: matoppie, witgat
- 1862 January 9, Thomas Baines, chapter XI, in Explorations in South-west Africa. […], London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, published 1864, OCLC 557884940, pages 302–303:
- The first mile or two was a grassy open plain of grey sandy soil consolidated by the grass roots and the late rains. Then came groves of mimosas, oomahaama, and motlopies, growing as usual from ant-hills, and these again alternated with patches of low bush of brittle wood, with smooth spear-shaped leaves (for a wonder destitute of thorns).
- 1976, Louis Grivetti, Dietary Resources and Social Aspects of Food Use in a Tswana Tribe (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Davis, Calif.: University of California, Davis, OCLC 378912084:
- According to Ferreira (1927–29, p. 352, 356) the Tlhaping are forbidden to cut mokgalo for fear of drought and also motlopi (Boscia albitrunca), the latter because of fear that their cattle will only produce male calves.
- 1984, Mishingo Mpaphadzi, editor, Botswana ’84: An Official Handbook, Gaborone, Botswana: Publicity Unit, Department of Information and Broadcasting, OCLC 175171579, page 4:
- The most common indigenous trees include the mophane, the camel-thorn, the motlopi (sheperd's[sic, meaning shepherd's] tree) and the baobab.
- 2002, Nelson Mandela, Marguerite Gordon, editor, Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales, New York, N.Y.: Norton, →ISBN, page 199:
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