See redbush on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "af", "3": "rooibos" }, "expansion": "Calque of Afrikaans rooibos", "name": "calque" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "red", "3": "bush" }, "expansion": "red + bush", "name": "compound" } ], "etymology_text": "Calque of Afrikaans rooibos, red + bush.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "redbush (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "_dis": "90 10", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "90 10", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "97 3", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "78 22", "kind": "lifeform", "langcode": "en", "name": "Legumes", "orig": "en:Legumes", "parents": [ "Fabales order plants", "Shrubs", "Trees", "Plants", "Lifeforms", "All topics", "Life", "Fundamental", "Nature" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2002 January 27, Alida Becker, “Miss Marple of Botswana”, in The New York Times:", "text": "Sitting in her ocher-walled office with its tin roof and itinerant chickens, Mma Ramotswe sips redbush tea and ponders the ethics of her cases: the wife who wants the detective to steal back the car her husband has stolen; the grief-stricken mother who, with Mma Ramotswe's deft application of a little blackmail, might be reunited with a young grandson.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2014, Paula Daly, Keep Your Friends Close:", "text": "I'm thinking I'm in for a sermon on decaffeinated redbush, or the antioxidant properties of organic camomile.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2015, Sarah Myhill, Sustainable Medicine: whistle-blowing on 21st century medical practice:", "text": "Herbal teas: redbush, rosehip tea, peppermint etc.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "rooibos tea" ], "id": "en-redbush-en-noun-d5O8uG4b", "links": [ [ "rooibos tea", "rooibos tea" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "2006, Fary Peterson, Dryland agriculture, page 893:", "text": "In the Cape region of South Africa the leaves of the wild redbush [Aspalathus linearis (Burm. f.) R. Dahlgr.] are collected by farmers for export as Rooibos tea.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2007, John Charles Griffiths, Tea: The Drink that Changed the World, page 9:", "text": "I shall not write about the estimable maté, Ilex paraguayensis, which is a holly, nor of rooibos, redbush (Aspalathus linearis), of the pea family, nor of any of the flowery infusions from camomile to hibiscus which have usurped the name of tea.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2010, Will Sellick, The Imperial African Cookery Book: Recipes from English-speaking Africa:", "text": "One of the few foodstuffs of the indigenous Khoikhoi and San people that European colonists adopted with any enthusiasm was a tea made from the dried, fermented leaf tips of a scrubby bushveld plant, Aspalathus linearis, known as redbush or rooibos.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "rooibos (shrub of genus Aspalathus)" ], "id": "en-redbush-en-noun-9SAUJNuY", "links": [ [ "rooibos", "rooibos#English" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] } ], "word": "redbush" }
{ "categories": [ "English compound terms", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms calqued from Afrikaans", "English terms derived from Afrikaans", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "en:Legumes" ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "af", "3": "rooibos" }, "expansion": "Calque of Afrikaans rooibos", "name": "calque" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "red", "3": "bush" }, "expansion": "red + bush", "name": "compound" } ], "etymology_text": "Calque of Afrikaans rooibos, red + bush.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "redbush (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2002 January 27, Alida Becker, “Miss Marple of Botswana”, in The New York Times:", "text": "Sitting in her ocher-walled office with its tin roof and itinerant chickens, Mma Ramotswe sips redbush tea and ponders the ethics of her cases: the wife who wants the detective to steal back the car her husband has stolen; the grief-stricken mother who, with Mma Ramotswe's deft application of a little blackmail, might be reunited with a young grandson.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2014, Paula Daly, Keep Your Friends Close:", "text": "I'm thinking I'm in for a sermon on decaffeinated redbush, or the antioxidant properties of organic camomile.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2015, Sarah Myhill, Sustainable Medicine: whistle-blowing on 21st century medical practice:", "text": "Herbal teas: redbush, rosehip tea, peppermint etc.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "rooibos tea" ], "links": [ [ "rooibos tea", "rooibos tea" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2006, Fary Peterson, Dryland agriculture, page 893:", "text": "In the Cape region of South Africa the leaves of the wild redbush [Aspalathus linearis (Burm. f.) R. Dahlgr.] are collected by farmers for export as Rooibos tea.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2007, John Charles Griffiths, Tea: The Drink that Changed the World, page 9:", "text": "I shall not write about the estimable maté, Ilex paraguayensis, which is a holly, nor of rooibos, redbush (Aspalathus linearis), of the pea family, nor of any of the flowery infusions from camomile to hibiscus which have usurped the name of tea.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2010, Will Sellick, The Imperial African Cookery Book: Recipes from English-speaking Africa:", "text": "One of the few foodstuffs of the indigenous Khoikhoi and San people that European colonists adopted with any enthusiasm was a tea made from the dried, fermented leaf tips of a scrubby bushveld plant, Aspalathus linearis, known as redbush or rooibos.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "rooibos (shrub of genus Aspalathus)" ], "links": [ [ "rooibos", "rooibos#English" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] } ], "word": "redbush" }
Download raw JSONL data for redbush meaning in All languages combined (2.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (9a96ef4 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.