Definitions for Kikuyu

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Kikuyu Ki·ku·yu

Spelling: [ki-koo-yoo]

IPA: /kɪˈku yu/

Kikuyu is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in Kikuyu (ikkuuy).

Definitions for Kikuyu

noun

1. a member of an indigenous people of Kenya having an agricultural economy and notable as being the originators of the Mau Mau.
2. the language of the Kikuyu, a Bantu language.
3. (usually lowercase). Also called kikuyu grass. a grass, Pennisetum clandestinum, native to southern Africa, sometimes used in warm climates for lawns or as pasturage.

Examples for Kikuyu

Then the second gunbearer, a keen-eyed Kikuyu, discovered the lion three hundred yards off to the right.

Even her descriptive imagery, when describing landscapes, is Kikuyu.

Of course you don't say anything like "How sad about this Kikuyu business."

The much-discussed Kikuyu case has brought this home to everybody.

Here was evidently the source of the Kikuyu's inexhaustible corn supply.

They stood with me to gaze at the midnight dances of the Kikuyu.

Many residents of the area are Kikuyu farmers as well as Somali pastoralists.

Charlie put a bullet behind the shoulder just in time to save a Kikuyu man.

Epic saga of Kikuyu life, starting in the 19th century before the arrival of the British.

This would account for the similarity of method in circumcision, which, among both Kikuyu and Masai, is incomplete.