limbos in English
noun
1
(in some Christian beliefs) the supposed abode of the souls of unbaptized infants, and of the just who died before Christ's coming.
She wore a black bonnet to match her dress and gloves; to Jeremiah she looked like an engraving he'd once seen of a restless soul in limbo .
2
an uncertain period of awaiting a decision or resolution; an intermediate state or condition.
the fate of the Contras is now in limbo
3
a West Indian dance in which the dancer bends backward to pass under a horizontal bar that is progressively lowered to a position just above the ground.
Play limbo , dance barefoot and swim like a tropical fish.
noun
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1. Under oaks and tropical Bustics, poisonwood, mastics, and gumbo-limbos grow small trees such as tetrazygia, rough-leaf velvetseed, and wild coffee, a multitude of mosses and ferns, and only a few species of shade-tolerant flowering plants