wagon tree, noun phrase

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South African DutchShow more Translation of South African Dutch wagenboom, see waboom.
waboom sense b.
1822 W.J. Burchell Trav. I. 123 (heading)The Waggon-tree.
[1963 Pollock & Agnew Hist. Geog. 108The Protea grandiflora..is popularly known as waboom (wagon tree) in Afrikaans.]
1987 T.F.J. Van Rensburg Intro. to Fynbos 16The wagon tree, often better known by its Afrikaans name ‘waboom’..has silvery leaves.
1987 T.F.J. Van Rensburg Intro. to Fynbos 17Slangbos or ‘kooigoed’ (Stoebe spp.) are conspicuous amongst wagon trees on unstable scree slopes.
1989 Afr. Wildlife Vol.43 No.3, 159 (advt)Only one..achieves true tree status — the ‘waboom’ or wagon-tree Protea nitida.
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