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CAPE KAFFERBOOM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small semi-evergreen broad-spreading tree of eastern South Africa with orange-scarlet flowers and small coral-red seeds; yields a light soft wood used for fence posts or shingles
Synonyms:
Cape kafferboom; Erythrina caffra; kaffir boom
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Hypernyms ("Cape kafferboom" is a kind of...):
coral tree; erythrina (any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental)