kigelia
nounEtymology From the genus name.
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The African flowering plant Kigelia africana, sole species in its genus in the family Bignoniaceae.
- They found these seeds and painted faces on them,” she says, picking up a long sausage-like fruit fallen from the kigelia trees.2015 August 29, “Childhood freedoms at heart of a wild life under African skies”, in The Guardian: