Kikuyu

noun (plural same or Kikuyus)

• 1a member of the largest ethnic group in Kenya.

• 2the Bantu language of the Kikuyu.

• 3 (kikuyu, kikuyu grass) a creeping perennial grass native to Kenya and cultivated elsewhere as a lawn and fodder grass.

  • Pennisetum clandestinum, family Gramineae

adjective

• relating to the Kikuyu people or their language.