mũtahato
- species of banana (of large size common in southern Kikuyu, an important part of diet of adolescent girls and, together with black beans, of women after childbirth, regarded as having aphrodisiac properties for men and therefore not eaten by boys); kĩhũti kĩa mũtahato feverish type of cold, accompanied by sores round mouth and nose; see ĩrigũ