单词 | bushveld |
释义 | bushveldn. Veld composed largely of bush; spec. (usually with capital initial) the wooded region of the South African provinces of Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and eastern North West province, the low-lying portion of which is called the Lowveld or Low Country.The Bushveld comprised the north-western, northern, and eastern Transvaal before the provinces were restructured in 1994. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of ripplelOE wildwooda1122 rough1332 firth?a1400 tod stripec1446 osiard1509 bush1523 bush-ground1523 fritha1552 island1638 oak landc1658 pinelandc1658 piney wood1666 broom-land1707 pine barrenc1721 pine savannah1735 savannah1735 thick woods1754 scrub-land1779 olive wood1783 primeval forest1789 open wood1790 strong woods1792 scrub1805 oak flata1816 sertão1816 sprout-land1824 flatwoods1841 bush-land1842 tall timber1845 amber forest1846 caatinga1846 mahogany scrub1846 bush-flat1847 myall country1847 national forest1848 selva1849 monte1851 virgin forest1851 bush-country1855 savannah forest1874 bush-range1879 bushveld1879 protection forest1889 mulga1896 wood-bush1896 shinnery1901 fringing forest1903 monsoon forest1903 rainforest1903 savannah woodland1903 thorn forest1903 tropical rainforest1903 gallery forest1920 cloud forest1922 rain jungle1945 mato1968 1879 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 Mar. 134/2 For big game, the low country and Bushveld is that part of the Transvaal which the hunter must seek. 1887 Atàlanta Nov. 80/1 The roar of a lion..in the solemn bush veldt. 1887 A. A. Anderson Twenty-five Years in Waggon (1888) 153 The Notuane River, in what is termed the Bush Veldt. 1901 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 333 An efficient guide, whose knowledge of the dense bushveld proved of great value. 1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 205 The Low Bush-veldt that sends men stragglin' unaware. 1903 ‘Indicus’ Labour S. Afr. 19 Their farm is of about 5,000 acres in extent, on the lower or Bush Veldt. 1907 J. P. Fitzpatrick Jock of Bushveld 14 Between the goldfields and the nearest port lay the Bushveld. 1940 V. Pohl Bushveld Adventures i. 41 My family had moved to the Bushveld of the Northern Transvaal. 1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari (1961) vii. 126 Soon the main stream carried us away from the bush-veld banks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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