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Definition of fynbos in English: fynbosnounˈfeɪnbɒsˈfānbäs mass nounA distinctive type of vegetation found only on the southern tip of Africa. It includes a very wide range of plant species, particularly small heather-like trees and shrubs. Example sentencesExamples - Alpha diversity of grassland at the 1000 m plot level exceeds all other biomes in southern Africa, including the renowned Cape fynbos, and the biome as a whole contains almost 4000 plant species.
- It has a particular vegetation, with fynbos and proteas, unusual little orchids and thousands of flower varieties.
- Essop said the government was also concerned that indigenous plants, or fynbos, had been destroyed at Pinnacle Point in Mossel Bay, where a casino and golf estate are being built.
- Climate change, sprawl, and alien-species invasion are threatening South Africa's fynbos, the main vegetation type of the smallest, yet richest, of the world's six floral kingdoms.
- As many as a third of all plant species in the fynbos are dispersed by ants.
Origin Afrikaans, literally 'fine bush'. Definition of fynbos in US English: fynbosnounˈfānbäs A distinctive type of vegetation found only on the southern tip of Africa. It includes a very wide range of plant species, particularly small heather-like trees and shrubs. Example sentencesExamples - Alpha diversity of grassland at the 1000 m plot level exceeds all other biomes in southern Africa, including the renowned Cape fynbos, and the biome as a whole contains almost 4000 plant species.
- As many as a third of all plant species in the fynbos are dispersed by ants.
- Climate change, sprawl, and alien-species invasion are threatening South Africa's fynbos, the main vegetation type of the smallest, yet richest, of the world's six floral kingdoms.
- Essop said the government was also concerned that indigenous plants, or fynbos, had been destroyed at Pinnacle Point in Mossel Bay, where a casino and golf estate are being built.
- It has a particular vegetation, with fynbos and proteas, unusual little orchids and thousands of flower varieties.
Origin Afrikaans, literally ‘fine bush’. |