harpuisbosn.
An evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Euryops, esp. the resin-bush, E. multifidus.
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1793 C. R. Hopson tr. C. P. Thunberg Trav. I. 211 A species of Coccus, called Harpuys, that was found on the branches of trees, was said to prove mortal to sheep.]
1811 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. (1822) I. xii. 259 The inhabitants of this district, when in want of resin, use as a substitute, a gum which exudes from different species of shrubs; which they therefore call Harpuis bosch (Resin bush).
1815 A. Plumptre tr. H. Lichtenstein Trav. S. Afr. II. 176 A shrub, which grows from two feet to three feet and a half high, called by the colonists harpuisbosjes, the rosin tree.
1846 H. H. Methuen Life in Wilderness 112 We again were in danger of being burnt; a sea of flame raging on one side of the road, and consuming the resinous arpuse bushes with a roaring noise, audible a long way off.
1912 East London Daily Dispatch (S. Afr.) 22 Aug. 5 Mr. Moffatt (Tarka) brought up the question of the noxious rapuis which had hitherto baffled their efforts.]
1926 O. Schreiner From Man to Man xi. 353 They burnt harpuis bushes on the lands at home.
1952 Cape Argus 1 Nov. (Mag.) 1/7 The yellow of the harpuisbos.
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