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wagonboom, noun

Origin:: South African DutchShow more Partial translation of South African Dutch wagenboom, see waboom.

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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.

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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wag-’n-bietjie, nounn.wagon tree, noun phrasen. phr.

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