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A preliminary checklist of Xhosa names for trees growing in Transkei

Domain:

natural language processing

Record type:

dataset
Creator:
Col
Publisher:
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Host:
Xhosa names for 284 of the 392 tree taxa recorded for Transkei are listed. The semantics of the common names are discussed. The main moulding forces for these names were found to be: tree habit, characteristics shared with animals, medicinal uses and social or historic events.

Languages

Xhosa

Licenses

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