Definition of Matambala

1. tambala [n] - See also: tambala

Lexicographical Neighbors of Matambala

matachins
mataco
matador
matadora
matadoras
matadore
matadores
matadors
matafunda
matai
matamata
matamata turtle
matamatas
matambala (current term)
matapee
matapees
matatu
matatus
matawari
match
match-cloth
match-maker
match-makers
match-making
match-up
match day
match drill
match fixing

Literary usage of Matambala

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Melanesians: Studies in Their Anthropology and Folk-lore by Robert Henry Codrington (1891)
"Young children, even sucklings, were made matambala ; for the latter they ... During the whole of this time the matambala, under cover of the terror of ..."

2. The Study of Man by Alfred Cort Haddon (1898)
"Dr. Codrington, the erudite missionary of Melanesia, has recorded a bull-roarer in connection with the matambala mysteries in Florida, one of the Solomon ..."

3. Sissano: Movements of Migration Within and Through Melanesia by William Churchill (1916)
"... expect to have found its use connected with the matambala of Florida, and it is possible that kava disappeared with the extinction of these societies. ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1903)
"... is grown in the Transvaal under the name of matambala. Another species, Plectranthus coppini, has been imported from the Soudan, where it was cultivated ..."

5. Gartenflora: Monatsschrift Fur Deutsche und Schweizerische Garten- und by Eduard Regel (1902)
"... Sims aus Transvaal (vulgo: matambala), der seit 1888 schon sehr im französischen äquatorialen Afrika verbreitet ist. 2. P. esculentus NE Brown, Natal. ..."

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