The phrase "a luanda" is not correct in standard written English.
It appears to be a misspelling or misinterpretation, as "luanda" does not have a recognized meaning in English.
Example: "I found a luanda in the garden." (This example is incorrect due to the term "luanda.")
Alternatives: "a flower" or "a plant."
Barney Cullum, Oxford A: Luanda is reasonably well served by flights from Europe but the majority of passengers are returning Angolans or businesspeople working in oil, so discounted flights are rare; £1,000 is a good fare for a flight, try holidaygenie.com.
Pilots and crew disappeared into a Luanda prison; the pilots, who may have been in cahoots with the government, have since been released.
In Sambizanga, a Luanda slum where Mr. dos Santos was born 74 years ago, narrow, muddy roads crisscross a labyrinth of concrete houses and tin shacks.
Gracing the entrance to Ilha, a popular Luanda strip of clubs and restaurants, is a giant Palanquinha next to an electronic billboard showing the countdown to Africa Cup of Nations – CAN2010.
In the 1990s it averaged just $600m a year.Yet Luanda is one of the world's trickiest places to do business in.
In late May, 300 assorted opposition types parliamentarians, traditional leaders, women's groups and so on sat in a plush Luanda hotel for their first big meeting since the war.
Ms. Pedro, a native of Luanda, has a 14-year-old daughter and is a volunteer at the Network of Women Living with HIV (MWENHO).
UNITA then attacked Baia-do-Cuio, followed by an attack on Golungo Alto, a city 200 km east of Luanda, a few days later.
He and the young curators, Paula Nascimento and Stefano Rabolli Pansera, had keyed colors in the photographs to the paintings: a stack of prints of a blue-painted Luanda door stood in front of a blue-robed Botticelli Virgin.
The author article describes how a woman in front of him at a grocery store in Luanda purchased a couple of steaks, pantry items, two pints of Häagen-Dazs ice cream, juice and vegetables for $1,150.
On a main road in Luanda, half a dozen Portuguese workers were painting lane lines on a recent afternoon.
