‖seebamboes, noun

/ˈsɪəbamˌbus/
Forms:
Formerly also zee bamboes, zee-bambos.
Origin:
Afrikaans, South African DutchShow more Afrikaans (earlier South African Dutch zeebamboes), see sea + bamboes bamboo.
sea bamboo.
1822 [see sea bamboo].
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 571Zee bamboes, Ecklonia buccinalis; the name given to this algae by the Dutch.
1958 L.G. Green S. Afr. Beachcomber 133Tough, dry stems of seebamboes are usually reduced to ashes.
1966 C.A. Smith Common Names 412Van Riebeeck in 1654 records that the Hottentots stored oil from stranded whales in the seebamboes.
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