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Cape +‎ yellowwood

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Cape yellowwood (countable and uncountable, plural Cape yellowwoods)

  1. A South African tree with yellowish wood, Podocarpus latifolius, or the wood from this tree.
    • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 160:
      He was standing beside the old Cape yellowwood jonkmanskas which I'd changed into a cocktail cabinet.

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