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Vinony

Zika Forest

proper noun

  1. forest in Uganda
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Wiktionary

name

Etymology: From Luganda zika (“become overgrown; go out of cultivation”).

  1. 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.