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kamassi S. Afr.|kaˈmasɪ|
Also camassie, kamasse, kamassie.
[Afrikaans kammassie, f. native name.]
A South African evergreen tree, Gonioma kamassi, of the family Apocynaceæ, or its hard yellow wood. Also attrib.
1793tr. C. P. Thunberg's Trav. Europe, Afr., & Asia II. 110 Camassie wood (Camassie-hout), is merely a shrub, and consequently produces small pieces only, which serve for veneering. 1814R. B. Fisher Importance of Cape Good Hope 84 The kamasse, a sort of bark, being the rhind or shavings of the tree of that name. 1907T. R. Sim Forests & Forest Flora Cape Good Hope 323 The Knysna export under the name of Boxwood was all, or mostly, Kamassi-wood, without any Boxwood. 1924Record & Mell Timbers Tropical Amer. 506 One of the two South African woods known to the world trade is the so-called Knysna or Kamassi boxwood. 1935L. Chalk et al. Forest Trees & Timbers Brit. Empire III. 15 Kamassi attains about 40 ft. in height and generally a maximum girth of 2 to 3 ft. Ibid. 17 Kamassi is one of the two timbers exported from South Africa regularly in small quantities. 1951Dict. Gardening (R. Hort. Soc.) II. 908/2 G[onioma] Kamassi. Evergreen shrub... Yields the hard Kamassi wood of S. Africa. 1973Palmer & Pitman Trees S. Afr. III. 1905 Kamassi occurs in numbers in the Midland forests of the Cape. Ibid. 1906 It is exported in small quantities, as is Cape box for which kamassie is often mistaken. |