wagonboom, noun

Origin:
South African DutchShow more Partial translation of South African Dutch wagenboom, see waboom.
obs.
waboom sense b.
1797 Lady A. Barnard in Lord Lindsay Lives of Lindsays (1849) III. 384Each side..was clothed with the waggombomb [sic], with its bright yellow flowers.
1880 A.H. Swinton Insect Variety 267The..Eocene flora..shows fruits of..Australian banksias, silver-trees, wagonbooms.
1897 S.J. Du Toit Rhodesia: Past & Present 126This region cannot be unhealthy, for the ‘sugar-bosch’ and ‘waggon-boom’ grow everywhere.
waboomb.

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