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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of dicotyledonous gamopetalous plants belonging to the natural order Ebenaceæ, the ebony family, characterized by diœcious flowers, almost always three-parted, from three to an indefinite number of stamens, and three styles, sometimes united below.
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Siyababongoza siyakwabacela ukokuba maba hlukane nalomkhuba bazakudibana nembila zithatha!
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Matt, you’re just begging for a certain Hack to come in and post something tedious and axiomatic about TSCC. maba Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Spitzer: Let’s Condemn the Human Race to Slavery and Extinction 2009
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[* In Africa, the elais or maba; in America the cocoa-tree.
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(* In Africa, the elais or maba; in America the cocoa-tree.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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