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melkbos S. Afr.|ˈmɛlkbɔs|
Also melkbosch.
[Afrikaans, f. melk milk + bos bush.]
A deciduous shrub or small tree, Diplorhynchus condylocarpon, of the family Apocynaceæ, which has a milky latex; also = milk-bush (d) s.v. milk n. 10 b. Also attrib.
1862‘A Lady’ Let. 23 Apr. in L. G. Ross Life at Cape (1963) ix. 100 Here also you find tufts of reed called the ‘melkbosch’, which are full of a milky fluid, only grateful to goats, for sheep will not touch it. 1898in T. R. Sim Forests & Forest Flora Cape Good Hope (1907) 316 The local name of the plant [sc. Euphorbia cervicornis] is Olifant Melkbosch. 1939‘D. Rame’ Wine of Good Hope i. vii. 92 They camped below melk-bosch trees. 1951L. G. Green Grow Lovely xxiv. 199 An even more historic landmark..is the gnarled melkbos tree known as ‘the old slave tree’. 1957Cape Times 18 Feb. 2/3 Seedlings from the old Melkbos tree at Mossel Bay should be cultivated. Ibid. 12 Sept. 2/4 The Board decided to give a melkbosch tree for an afforestation scheme. 1973Palmer & Pitman Trees S. Afr. III. 1911 One of the features of the tree [sc. Diplorhynchus condylocarpon] is its milky latex which when ‘dry’ is soft, sticky and rubber-like and which gives it the common names of ‘rubber tree’ or ‘melkbos’. |