[Dixonary] Round 2948 - MABA Defs Up

Find below 14 definitions of maba, one of which comes from a dictionary. The
remainder come from the fertile imaginations of the players.

Vote for two by way of a public response to this message before the deadline.
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Monday, 12:00am EST (New York) 24-Dec-2018
Sunday, 09:00pm PST (San Francisco) 23-Dec-2018
Monday, 05:00am GMT (London) 24-Dec-2018
Monday, 06:00am CET (Brussels) 24-Dec-2018
Monday, 04:00pm AEDT (Melbourne) 24-Dec-2018
Monday 2018-12-24 0500Z


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1. [Japanese] A fully-enclosed horse-drawn carriage.

2. An African palm tree.

3. A golden, tart apple, now believed extinct.

4. A widely distributed genus of tropical trees and shrubs (family Ebenaceae)
having dioecious trimerous flowers and very hard wood resembling ebony.

5. A bitter yellow powder obtained from cavities in the wood of a Brazilian
leguminous tree, formerly used in medicine to treat skin ailments.

6. A council or meeting of indigenous peoples of eastern Africa to discuss an
important matter.

7. [acronym] Monoclonal AntiBody Assay.

8. The right of the kings of Hawaii, beginning with Kamehameha I in 1810, to a
proportion of the catch in coastal fish traps.

9. A set of counters used to mark the score in each chukker of a polo match.

10. An important bushy shrub growing in the mid and highland areas of Ethiopia
from which the leaves are taken, along with honey, to make a popular
fermented brew.

11. Acronym for Middle Australia Banking Association, sometimes misused as
“Make Australia Broke Again” as an Internet meme.

12. A failed search and rescue mission.

13. (Zool.) A West African antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), curiously marked
with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground, and hence called
harnessed antelope.

14. Maize porridge.


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