wagenboom

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans wagenboom, literally "wagon tree".

Noun

wagenboom (plural wagenbooms)

1. A South African proteaceous tree (Protea nitida).
2. The tough wood of this tree, used for making wagon wheels.

Synonyms

• waboom
• wagon tree

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “wagenboom”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)