ngina
English
Noun
ngina (plural nginas)
- (dated) The gorilla.
- 1902, Percy Watkins Myles, James Britten, George Simonds Boulger, The Selborne magazine and "Nature notes" (volume 13)
- It traverses the whole range of animal life in tropical Africa, from the ngina or gorilla to the butterflies and ants: he makes the animals tell their own stories; and his text is illustrated with some telling drawings.
- 1914, Paul Belloni Du Chaillu, In African forest and jungle
- The nginas can see wonderfully well through the jungle.
- 1902, Percy Watkins Myles, James Britten, George Simonds Boulger, The Selborne magazine and "Nature notes" (volume 13)
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