ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. (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

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Related dictionary entries include bucku, boegoe, spekboom, rooibos, gousiektebossie, bear's-paw.

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