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Cameroun

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Came·roun  (käm-rn)
See Cameroon.
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Noun1.Cameroun - a republic on the western coast of central Africa; was under French and British control until 1960
capital of Cameroon, Yaounde - the capital of Cameroon
Douala - the largest city of Cameroon
Cameroon - an inactive volcano in western Cameroon; highest peak on the West African coast
Africa - the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
Cameroonian - a native or inhabitant of Cameroon


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Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar; ([dagger])Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ([double dagger])World Wide Fund for Nature, Antananarivo, Madagascar; ([section]) Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; and ([paragraph]) Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Yaounde, Cameroon
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