Lake Malawi
- proper noun
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Lago Malawi
- Tourists flock to Lake Malawi to enjoy the sandy beaches and vibrant wildlife.
Examples
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Lake Malawi has the highest species diversity of the three great lakes.
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To understand Lake Victoria, one must see both the lake and its fauna in the context of its giant East African neighbors, Lake Malawi and Lake Tanganyika (Table 2).
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In fact, Lake Victoria shares guilds with Lake Malawi that are absent in Lake Tanganyika.
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Lake Malawi may be monophyletic, but it has had time to produce several distinct descendant lineages.
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The decline of these predators in Lake Malawi appears to have been responsible for the rise in transmission of the schistosome parasites in the lake since the 1980s (Evers et al. 2006).
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Evidence from Lake Malawi, for example, indicates that overfishing of mollusk-eating fish has resulted in a greater number of Bulinus gastropods and the subsequent spread of schistosomiasis.
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In contrast, the haplochromine flock in Lake Victoria exhibits four characteristics that clearly set it apart from the cichlid faunas of Lake Malawi and Lake Tanganyika:
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Lake Malawi is renowned for its stunning beauty and crystal-clear waters.
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Fishing is a popular activity for both locals and visitors at Lake Malawi.
Synonyms
A large lake in southeast Africa between Malawi, Tanzania and Mozambique
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is simply a place-name formed from 'lake' (a body of water) plus 'Malawi' (the country), so its meaning — a lake located in or associated with Malawi — is directly derivable from the constituent words. This is a standard, cross-linguistic toponymic composition and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
The name Lake Malawi may come from the local word Malawi, which one popular story says means 'flames'. People said the sun on the lake looks like many small fires at sunset, so the name came to make people think of the lake's glowing water.
