different between restio vs fynbos

English

Noun

restio (plural restios)

1. (botany) Any member of the family Restionaceae of perennial, evergreen, rush-like flowering plants native to the Southern Hemisphere.

Anagrams

• Sortie, Storie, Tories, oister, sortie, storie, tiroes, tories, triose, œstri

Italian

Adjective

restio (feminine restia, masculine plural resti, feminine plural restie)

1. reluctant, unwilling

Anagrams

• esorti
• riteso
• roseti
• sorite
• storie
• tesori

Latin

Etymology

From restis (“rope”) +? -?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?res.ti.o?/, [?r?s?t?io?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?res.ti.o/, [?r?st?i?]

Noun

resti? m (genitive resti?nis); third declension

1. ropemaker

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• restio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• restio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Afrikaans fynbos (“fynbos”), from Afrikaans fyn (“fine”) and bos (“bush”).

Noun

fynbos (uncountable)

1. (botany) Vegetation unique to the Cape Floral Kingdom made up chiefly of Proteaceae, restios and Ericaceae.
   • 1992, Reader's Digest, The Great South African Outdoors

     The southern and western Cape is the home of a unique type of vegitation known as fynbos. Covering around 90 000 square kilometers of often harsh terrain, fynbos is made up of approximately 6 000 different plant species.

Related terms

• macchia
• macchie
• maquis

Translations

References

• Reader's Digest: The Great South African Outdoors: Reader's Digest 1992.