tulp-boom, noun

Origin:: South African Dutch, DutchShow more South African Dutch, from Dutch tulp tulip + boom tree.

obs.

The sugarbush (sense a), Protea repens.

1795 C.R. Hopson tr. of C.P. Thunberg’s Trav. I. 292The Protea mellifera (Tulp-boom and Zuyker-boom) contains in its calyx a sweet juice.

1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 519Tulpboom,..Protea mellifera.

The sugarbush (sense a), Protea repens.

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