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# {{label|en|South Africa}} A shrub ({{taxlink|Aspalathus linearis|species|noshow=1}}) from which [[tea]] is made. |
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#* {{quote-book|title=Panoramic South Africa|page=41|year=1980|passage=The air is aromatic with buchu (Rutaceae), pines, '''rooibos''' (''Aspalathus linearis''), and, of course, the cedars for which these mountains are named.}} |
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#* {{quote-book|title=West Coast: Landscape, People, Food, Texture|author=Karena Du Plessis|year=2006|passage=Love it or hate it, '''rooibos''' (''Aspalathus linearis'') is as much a part of this region as rock art, velskoen and stunning spring flowers.}} |
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#* {{quote-book|title=Confronting Biopiracy: Challenges, Cases and International Debates|author=Daniel Robinson|year=2010|passage='''Rooibos''' (''Aspalathus linearis'', Fabaceae) is a plant that is indigenous only to the Cedarburg Mountain Range near Cape Town, South Africa.}} |
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# The [[herbal tea]] made from this plant. |
# The [[herbal tea]] made from this plant. |
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#* {{quote-book|title=Parliamentary Publications|page=30|author=South Africa. Parliament|year=1921|passage=The demand would be greater but; for the fact that much adulteration is practised by unscrupulous dealers in mixing inferior quality tea with the true variety known as “'''rooibos'''” (''Aspalathus'' sp.).}} |
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#* {{quote-journal|journal=Commercial Opinion|volume=45|page=19|year=1967|passage=During the past twenty years or so farmers in the Cedarberg region, from Citrusdal to Nieuwoudtville, have raised the '''rooibos''' tea industry from obscurity to minor boom.}} |
#* {{quote-journal|journal=Commercial Opinion|volume=45|page=19|year=1967|passage=During the past twenty years or so farmers in the Cedarberg region, from Citrusdal to Nieuwoudtville, have raised the '''rooibos''' tea industry from obscurity to minor boom.}} |
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#* {{quote-journal|title=Rooibos Tea: Research into Antioxidant and Antimutagenic Properties|journal=The Journal of the American Botanical Council|issue=59|page=34|author=Laurie Erickson|year=2003|passage=Antioxidants are hot topics in the health news these days, and an herbal tea called '''rooibos''' (pronounced ROY-boss) is becoming popular partly because it is being marketed as a healthy beverage with high levels of antioxidants. The rooibos plant (Aspalathus linearis (Burm. f.) Dahlgren, Fabaceae) is a South African flowering shrub used to make a mild-tasting tea that has no caffeine, very little tannin, and significant amounts of polyphenol antioxidants.}} |
#* {{quote-journal|title=Rooibos Tea: Research into Antioxidant and Antimutagenic Properties|journal=The Journal of the American Botanical Council|issue=59|page=34|author=Laurie Erickson|year=2003|passage=Antioxidants are hot topics in the health news these days, and an herbal tea called '''rooibos''' (pronounced ROY-boss) is becoming popular partly because it is being marketed as a healthy beverage with high levels of antioxidants. The rooibos plant (Aspalathus linearis (Burm. f.) Dahlgren, Fabaceae) is a South African flowering shrub used to make a mild-tasting tea that has no caffeine, very little tannin, and significant amounts of polyphenol antioxidants.}} |
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Revision as of 04:29, 26 June 2016
English
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Afrikaans [Term?] rooibos, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch rooi (“red”) + bosch (“bush”).
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
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|lang=parameter) IPA(key): ˈrɔɪbɒs
Noun
rooibos (uncountable)
- (South Africa) A shrub (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 858: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.) from which tea is made.
- The herbal tea made from this plant.
- (South Africa) Various shrubs of the genus Combretum.
Synonyms
Dutch
Etymology
From Afrikaans rooibos (“rooibos”), equivalent to a (Afrikaans and Dutch) compound of Lua error in Module:affix/templates at line 38: The |lang= parameter is not used by this template. Place the language code in parameter 1 instead..
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
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Noun
rooibos m (plural rooibossen, diminutive rooibosje n)
Usage notes
Compounds in Dutch normally always take the grammatical gender of the latter component ("bos"), which would be neuter in this case. Because the word was borrowed from Afrikaans which makes no use of grammatical genders, it took the masculine gender which is often the gender assigned to loan words.
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