rooibos

English

cut rooibos

Plant

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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): ˈrɔɪbɒs

Noun

rooibos (uncountable)

1. (South Africa) A bush () from which tea is made.
2. The herbal tea made from this plant.

Synonyms

• redbush

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Dutch

Etymology

From Afrikaans rooibos (“rooibos”), equivalent to a (Afrikaans and Dutch) compound of .

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Noun

rooibos m (plural rooibossen, diminutive rooibosje n)

1. rooibos plant
2. rooibos tea

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.