MOZAMBIQUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mozambique mean? 

• MOZAMBIQUE (noun)
  The noun MOZAMBIQUE has 1 sense:

1. a republic on the southeastern coast of Africa on the Mozambique Channel; became independent from Portugal in 1975

  Familiarity information: MOZAMBIQUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOZAMBIQUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic on the southeastern coast of Africa on the Mozambique Channel; became independent from Portugal in 1975

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Mocambique; Mozambique; Republic of Mozambique

Instance hypernyms:

African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Mozambique"):

Beira (a port city in eastern Mozambique on the Mozambique Channel)

capital of Mozambique; Maputo (the capital and largest city of Mozambique)

Lake Malawi; Lake Nyasa (a long lake in southeastern Africa between Tanzania, Mozambique, and Malawi)

Crocodile River; Limpopo; Zambezi; Zambezi River (an African river; flows into the Indian Ocean)

Meronyms (members of "Mozambique"):

Mozambican (a native or inhabitant of Mozambique)

Holonyms ("Mozambique" is a part of...):

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

Derivation:

Mozambican (of or relating to the people of Mozambique)

Mozambican (of or relating to or located in Mozambique)

 Context examples 

In at least one country, Mozambique, researchers discovered that 100 percent of A. funestus remained alive after direct exposure to the chemical.

(Malaria-carrying Mosquitoes Becoming Resistant to Bed Nets in Southern Africa, VOA)

A country in southeastern Africa, bordering the Mozambique Channel, between South Africa and Tanzania.

(Mozambique, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of islands in the Mozambique Channel, about two-thirds of the way between northern Madagascar and northern Mozambique, northwest of Mayotte.

(Comoros, NCI Thesaurus)

This foraging partnership was recorded in print as early as 1588, when a Portuguese missionary in what is now Mozambique observed a small brown bird slipping into his church to nibble his wax candles.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

With the help of honey-hunters from the local Yao community, Spottiswoode carried out controlled experiments in Mozambique’s Niassa National Reserve to test whether the birds were able to distinguish the call from other human sounds, and so to respond to it appropriately.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Keith and Colleen Begg, who do wonderful conservation work in northern Mozambique, alerted me to the Yao people’s traditional practice of using a distinctive call which they believe helps them to recruit honeyguides.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)