waterboom
English edit
Etymology edit
Afrikaans or English water + Afrikaans boom (“tree”)
Noun edit
waterboom (uncountable)
- (South Africa, archaic) Syzygium cordatum, a tree typically growing out of wet ground.
- 1901 July 19, “To Australia and Back”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record[1], volume 4, number 10, page 299:
- On nearing Bacchus Marsh the country becomes wooded, mostly with stunted swamp gums, which look very much like our waterboom, a valueless kind of tree.