cape kafferboom

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   small semi-evergreen broad-spreading tree of eastern South Africa with orange-scarlet flowers and small coral-red seeds; yields a light soft wood used for fence posts or shingles

   Synonymskaffir boomErythrina caffra

   Broadercoral tree

Questions about cape kafferboom

What does cape kafferboom mean?

cape kafferboom means "small semi-evergreen broad-spreading tree of eastern South Africa with orange-scarlet flowers and small coral-red seeds; yields a light soft wood used for fence posts or shingles".

What is another word for cape kafferboom?

Close synonyms include kaffir boom, Erythrina caffra. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cape kafferboom a common word?

cape kafferboom is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.