Definition of "fynbos" [fynbos]

• Vegetation unique to the Cape Floral Kingdom made up chiefly of proteaceae, restios and Ericaceae. (noun)

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• "While such an animal may find it a lonely existence, the Steenbras Dam, which stretches along the Hottentots Holland mountain range for many kilometres, with its large pine forest plantations and fynbos is an ideal habitat."
• "Buchu- An herb found in the fine flora called 'fynbos' in the Cape."
• "The distinctive flora of the Cape Floral Region, comprising 80% of its floristic richness, is a sclerophyllous shrubland known as fynbos (fine bush), a fine-leaved vegetation adapted to both the Mediterranean type of climate and to periodic fires and defined by location or dominant species such as coastal, mountain or grassy or proteoid fynbos."