blue-bush, noun

Origin:
Translation of Afrikaans bloubos.
bloubos. Also attributive.
a1930 G. Baumann in Baumann & Bright Lost Republic (1940) 142I came across a shallow ‘vlei’, on the outer edge of which stood a solitary blaaubosch (blue-bush).
a1930 G. Baumann in Baumann & Bright Lost Republic (1940) 235In winter time we cut supple blue-bush sticks, and bent them into bows.
1973 J. Cope Alley Cat 57Blue-bush and vaal-kameel thorns grew in the river bed.
1977 [see bloubos].
bloubos. Also attributive.
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