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Cameroon   /kˈæmərˌun/   Listen
Cameroon

noun
1.
An inactive volcano in western Cameroon; highest peak on the West African coast.
2.
A republic on the western coast of central Africa; was under French and British control until 1960.  Synonyms: Cameroun, Republic of Cameroon.



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"Cameroon" Quotes from Famous Books



... man, and on the mountains several representative European forms are found which have not been discovered in the intertropical parts of Africa. Dr. Hooker has also lately shown that several of the plants living on the upper parts of the lofty island of Fernando Po, and on the neighbouring Cameroon Mountains, in the Gulf of Guinea, are closely related to those on the mountains of Abyssinia, and likewise to those of temperate Europe. It now also appears, as I hear from Dr. Hooker, that some of these same temperate plants ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Cameroon" :   Yaounde, Douala, African country, Republic of Cameroon, African nation, volcano, Africa, Cameroonian


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