cape² /kāp/

1. A head or point of land jutting into the sea or a lake
2. (with cap) see the Cape below

To keep a course

Cape buffalo see buffalo

Cape cart noun (S Afr)

A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle with a hood

Cape Coloured noun (historical)

A person of mixed race, in the former Cape Province of South Africa

Cape doctor noun (S Afr)

A strong south-east wind in the Cape, so named because it was believed to blow away germs

Cape Dutch noun

1. A former name for Afrikaans
2. An architectural style of the Cape, characterized by whitewashed, gabled, thatched-roof, single-storey houses

Cape gooseberry noun

1. The strawberry tomato (Physalis peruviana), a S American solanaceous plant with bladdery calyx, naturalized in S Africa
2. Its edible, soft, yellow fruit

Cape hyacinth see hyacinth

Cape jasmine noun

A common variety of gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides)

Cape nightingale noun

A frog

Cape pigeon noun

A species of petrel (Daption capensis), a common winter visitor to the Cape area of South Africa

Cape primrose noun

The streptocarpus plant

Cape smoke noun (S Afr sl)

South African brandy, dop

Cape sparrow see under mossie²

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