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bushveld

n. (context South Africa English) A terrain of thick scrubby trees and bush in dense thickets, with grassy groundcover between.

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Bushveld

The Bushveld is a sub-tropical woodland ecoregion of Southern Africa named after the term veld. It encompasses most of Limpopo Province and a small part of the North West Province of South Africa, the Central and North-East Districts of Botswana and the Matabeleland South and part of the Matabeleland North provinces of Zimbabwe.

Usage examples of "bushveld".

As far as the eye could reach the bushveld rolled its scrub like the scrawled foliage a child draws on a slate, with here and there a baobab swimming unsteadily in the glare.

After resting for a fortnight in the northern parts of Zululand, to give time to our wayworn oxen to get some flesh on their bones in the warm bushveld where grass was plentiful even in the dry season, we trekked forward by a route known to Hans and myself.

The bushveld is at this season of the year unhealthy both for man and beast, so that for the sake of their herds, their families, and themselves the burghers were constrained to descend into the open veld.

Hooktooths on Bushveld a few years ago and heard stories of a white-haired man living there, gathering specimens.

You've explored more worlds in the Belladonna Cluster than anyone else, and if Michael Drake has left Bushveld and gone further into the Cluster, I need someone who's acquainted with at leastsome of the worlds where he might have gone.

And third, all anyone knows for sure is that he vanished on Bushveld years ago.

There were seventeen known diseases that men could catch in the jungles of Bushveld, but we could also be attacked by any of the numerous species of carnivore.

There was a lot of water on Bushveld, but I didn't think we'd spend any time on it.

Wentzel and the two Dabih skinners were to meet us on Bushveld, where Vaughn was arranging for our native help.

I heard you were coming to Bushveld, I arranged a banquet for this evening.

I do know that Bushveld has 23 species of raptor, nine of which are nocturnal.

We have the means to literally vaporize Bushveld, but instead we're armed with weapons that will give animals and enemies a fair chance to escape or fight back.

He paused for a long moment, watching the flickering to the flames and listening to the sounds of the Bushveld night, and then sighed deeply.

Even if Drake was on Bushveld, we were surely more than a few days from finding him, and if the cameras were elsewhere, it meant we wouldn't be stopping for the heroic hunter to blow away any more innocent animals that wanted nothing more than to be left alone.

One to each doctor who set up shop on Bushveld and wanted to treat Orange-Eyes.