They now went into a patch of short mopani bush, beyond which the country was open forest, with no underwood.
My friend gave him a bullet as he lay, upon which he jumped up and stood behind some mopani trees, only exposing his head and hind-quarters on either side their stems.
She then trotted to a large mopani tree, in the shade of which she stood.
In the parts about Chobe the fly is found near rivers only, in or near rich soils, and marshy spots--generally in mimosa or mopani forests.
At the Anyati, or Buffalo River, we had to leave the waggon and cattle as the long bed or sand hill covered with mopani and other trees, between it and the Falls, was known to be infested.
And to think that I used to eat the stuff they callMopani honey until, one day, I saw a bunch of them lapping up the moisture from a perspiring native runner.
There thrives in the Kalahari Desert a pestiferous little winged insect called the Mopani bee, named after the hardwood tree in which it sets its hive.
For a sudden fusillade had opened on that side, and the chips were flying wildly from the mopani poles.
Lamont has been putting him up since Peters picked him up in the mopani veldt, nearly dead with thirst.
He's a Johnny Raw, and he'd been drawing sort of figures of eight all about that mopani patch for the last forty-eight hours.
This stuffs too valuable till we get clear of the mopani belt.
And now, through its lifting folds, rises in dark loom the jagged silhouette of the mopani stockade.
You know, Lamont, more than one white man has disappeared in that mopani belt, but it's always been put down to thirst.
Peters picked him up in the mopani veldt, down Pagadi way, and brought him on," said Lamont.
His brain was giddy and his eyes wearied with the unvarying vista on every hand, the straight stems of the mopani forest, enclosing him; a still and ghastly wilderness devoid of bird or animal life.
If I had known half that perhaps I would have left him for jackal's meat in the mopanibefore I moved finger, let alone touched trigger, to get him out," said Peters savagely.
The scant shade of the mopani foliage afforded little protection from the sun, and even if it had, the oven-like atmosphere engendered by the burnt, cracked soil would have neutralised such.
Riding across one of these flooded valleys, I came upon a porcupine seated disconsolately on the stem of a fallen Mopani tree--the first of these animals I had ever come across in the daytime.
But as long as the buffaloes remained on the open ground round the pool of water, the elephants did not advance, remaining about a hundred yards away, just within the edge of a thin forest of mopani trees.
This open plain was skirted to the north by dense jungles of wait-a-bit thorns, and on its other three sides by open Mopani forest and scrub.
She sleeps the first night (she started in the afternoon) in a belt of Mopani forest.
The veldt was the same: endless bush andmopani forest.
Never again would the goodly antelope wander through the mopani forest, or graze peacefully over the grass plains.
Tom, galloping as hard as the mopani growth would allow him, was rapidly closing up with the hindmost of the left-hand section.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mopani" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
