Etymology

waterboom

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Today it means: Syzygium cordatum, a tree typically growing out of wet ground. Full definition →

Afrikaans boom
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The story

  1. Afrikaans · derived fromboom“tree”
  2. English todaywaterboom

Afrikaans or English water + Afrikaans boom (“tree”)

Words from the same roots

Afrikaansboom all →

guarriboom

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.