buchu
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buchu (countable and uncountable, plural buchus)
- A South African shrub in the genus Agathosma.
- 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 41:
- 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 […]
- (South Africa) Medicinal leaves from the shrub that are often used in brandy; this is an old Dutch medicine.
- 1999, JM Coetzee, Disgrace, Vintage, published 2000, page 71:
- Like Lucy, they have potatoes and onions to sell, but also bottled jams, preserves, dried fruit, packets of buchu tea, honeybush tea, herbs.
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buchu
Upper Sorbian[edit]
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buchu
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