单词 | kankerbos |
释义 | kankerboskankerbossien. South African. = cancer bush n. at cancer n. and adj. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > other non-British medicinal trees or shrubs snake-wood1598 velvet-leaf1707 macary bittera1726 majoa1726 ahuehuete1778 cucumber-tree1784 bilimbi1790 rohuna1829 chaulmoogra1832 juriballi1834 horse-cassia1864 yaw-weed1864 cundurango1871 Chile senna1874 cancer bush1888 quinine tree1905 kankerbos1913 hydnocarpus1928 1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 248 Kanker boschje.—Sutherlandia frutescens, R. Br. is so named in the Riversdale district. 1931 Farming in S. Afr. Sept. 216 They preferred by far the ‘klein kankerbos’. 1949 L. G. Green In Land of Afternoon 50 There is the kankerbos, which has failed to provide a cure for cancer. 1953 Cape Times 14 July 2/7 These [sc. existing plantings] will be followed by the introduction of more woody species, such as bitou, blombos, kankerbossie and waxberrie. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1913 |
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