Buchu
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Buchu is a noun meaning A South African shrub in the genus Agathosma.
Meaning
A South African shrub in the genus Agathosma.
More Meanings
- (South Africa) Medicinal leaves from the shrub that are often used in brandy; this is an old Dutch medicine.
Example Sentences
Like Lucy, they have potatoes and onions to sell, but also bottled jams, preserves, dried fruit, packets of buchu tea, honeybush tea, herbs.
Inside us, like chromosomes, lay the memories of […] guinea-fowl clicking in the early morning grass or the delicate tracks of the sandpiper, the smell of buchu and veld fires […]
Word Forms
- buchus
- bucku
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bucku, boegoe, spekboom, rooibos, gousiektebossie, bear's-paw.
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