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- Luganda · derived fromzika“become overgrown; go out of cultivation”
- English todayZika Forest
From Luganda zika (“become overgrown; go out of cultivation”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zika Forest
Today it means: An area of tropical forest near Entebbe, Uganda, owned by the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), used for mosquito research, where the Zika virus was first isolated and described. Full definition →
Luganda zika