| gamba | (noun) viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello | Synonyms: bass viol, viola da gamba |
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| macamba | (noun) tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts | Synonyms: Acrocomia aculeata, gri-gri, grugru, grugru palm |
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| macumba | (noun) a Brazilian religious cult of African origin; combines voodoo elements with singing and chanting and dancing | - |
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| (noun) popular dance music of Brazil; derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult | - |
| (noun) (Brazil) followers of a religious cult of African origin | - |
| mamba | (noun) arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal | - |
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| marimba | (noun) a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets | Synonyms: xylophone |
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| rhumba | (noun) a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement | Synonyms: rumba |
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| (noun) a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance | Synonyms: rumba |
| (noun) syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba | Synonyms: rumba |
| rumba | (noun) a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement | Synonyms: rhumba |
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| (noun) a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance | Synonyms: rhumba |
| (noun) syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba | Synonyms: rhumba |
| samba | (noun) a lively dance from Brazil, with roots from Africa | - |
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| (noun) a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers | - |
| (noun) music composed for dancing the samba | - |
| (noun) large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood | Synonyms: arere, obeche, obechi, Triplochiton scleroxcylon |