a type of vegetation unique to the Mediterranean-climate region of southern and southwestern South Africa, characterized by evergreen hard-leaved shrubs and almost no trees
Word origin
Afrikaans: fine bush
Examples of 'fynbos' in a sentence
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The fynbos also provides a natural link to the local community.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Amid the herby-smelling spikes of yellow fynbos flowers, butterflies flit in the sunshine.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
Encompassing 2,500 acres of the indigenous fynbos, it is home to 768 plant species, many of them endangered and vulnerable.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Fynbos is made up of plants such as heathers, protea and luecadendron (beautiful silver trees).