witgat
See also: wit gat
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witgat (plural witgats)
- (South Africa) Synonym of motlopi
- 1972, Eve Palmer, Norah Pitman, Trees of Southern Africa:
- The witgats, Boscia albitrunca and Boscia oleoides, are sometimes called shepherd's trees because their neat evergreen crowns cast a small but deep shadow in which for centuries shepherds and their flocks have rested.
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witgat (plural witgatte)
- motlopi tree
- Synonyms: matoppie, witgatboom
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From wit (“white”) + gat (“rump”).
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witgat c (plural witgatten, diminutive witgatje n)
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- witgat on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl