Meaning of buchu | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A South African shrub in the genus Agathosma.
   countable, uncountable
2. Medicinal leaves from the shrub that are often used in brandy; this is an old Dutch medicine.
   South-Africa, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Inside us, like chromosomes, lay the memories of […] guinea-fowl clicking in the early morning grass or the delicate tracks of the sandpiper, the smell of buchu and veld fires […]”

“Like Lucy, they have potatoes and onions to sell, but also bottled jams, preserves, dried fruit, packets of buchu tea, honeybush tea, herbs.”

CEFR level