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  1. loa(Noun)

    In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.

  2. Origin: From lwa, perhaps from roi.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Loa

    A genus of parasitic nematodes found throughout the rain-forest areas of the Sudan and the basin of the Congo. L. loa inhabits the subcutaneous tissues, which it traverses freely.


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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

megaphone(noun)

a funnel-shaped device for speaking through, that causes sounds to be made louder and/or sent in a given direction

He shouted instructions to the crowd through a megaphone.

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