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noun
- (Botany): Vegetation unique to the Cape Floral Kingdom made up chiefly of proteaceae, restios and Ericaceae.
- 1992 Reader's DigestThe Great South African Outdoors - The southern and western Cape is the home of a unique type of vegitation known as . Covering around 90 000 square kilometers of often harsh terrain, is made up of approximately 6 000 different plant species.
Etymology: fijn meaning fine and bosch meaning bush through Afrikaans.
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