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‖ driedoring, n. S. Afr.|ˈdridʊərɪŋ|
Also driedoorn |-dʊən|.
[Afrikaans, f. Du. drie three + doorn thorn (see quot. 1972).]
Any of several thorny shrubs or small trees found in the dry plains of southern and tropical Africa, esp. Rhigozum trichotomum of the Bignoniaceae (Jacaranda family).
1824W. J. Burchell Trav. S. Afr. II. 23 We were at last content to take up a station amongst a few stunted Driedoorns. 1933Cape Argus 27 July, Experiments are..being carried out with the grinding of the Drie Doring Bush. 1952Ibid. 15 Mar. 1/2 The wind moaned a little and shook the branches of the drie-doring trees. 1955L. G. Green Karoo xi. 133 There is another driedoring species, the wilde granaat, which prefers the koppies and gives out brilliant yellow flowers. 1973Palmer & Pitman Trees S. Afr. III. 2002 Burchell founded this genus on the driedoring, Rhigozum trichotomum, the shrub whose spiky form, with the branches dividing and the branchlets subdividing into 3's, is so typical a sight in the arid northern Cape and parts of the western Orange Free State and South West Africa. 1974Stand. Encycl. S. Afr. X. 82/1 Before this region changes into Karoo it goes through an intermediate stage (Kenhardt, Prieska) where the driedoring (wild pomegranate) predominates. |