cape : Idioms & Phrases

• noun much-branched South African plant with reddish prickly succulent leaves
  Aloe ferox.
  

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• noun a Massachusetts peninsula to the north of Boston extending into the Atlantic Ocean
  

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• noun an island that forms the northeastern part of Nova Scotia
  

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• noun large often savage buffalo of southern Africa having upward-curving horns; mostly in game reserves
  Synercus caffer.
  

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• (Zoöl.) a large and powerful buffalo of South Africa (Bubalus Caffer). It is said to be the most dangerous wild beast of Africa. See Buffalo, 2.

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• noun a sandy promontory (formerly Cape Kennedy) extending into the Atlantic Ocean from a barrier island off the eastern coast of Florida; the site of a NASA center for spaceflight
  Cape Canaveral.
  

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• noun a Massachusetts peninsula to the south of Boston extending into the Atlantic; a popular resort area
  

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• noun the southern part of Massachusetts Bay
  

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• noun a canal connecting Cape Cod Bay with Buzzards Bay
  

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• noun a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa
  Cape Colony; Cape of Good Hope Province.
  

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• noun relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco
  Leonotis leonurus; dagga; wilde dagga; red dagga.
  

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• noun a cape in southeastern North Carolina extending into the Atlantic Ocean
  

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• noun a river in North Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Fear
  

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• noun a cape of northwestern Washington
  

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• noun anchusa of southern Africa having blue to red-purple flowers
  Anchusa riparia.
  
• noun anchusa of southern Africa having blue flowers with white throats
  Anchusa capensis.
  

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• noun a cape on the Strait of Magellan in southern Chile; the most southern point on the mainland of South America
  

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• noun a town in southeast Missouri
  

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• noun annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits
  purple ground cherry; Physalis peruviana.
  

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• noun a promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina
  
  • frequent storms drive ships to their destruction on Cape Hatteras

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• noun a rocky headland belonging to Chile at the southernmost tip of South America (south of Tierra del Fuego)
  

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• noun a powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs; now rare in settled area
  Lycaon pictus; African hunting dog; hyena dog.
  

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• noun southern African herb with white bell-shaped flowers
  Galtonia candicans; Hyacinthus candicans; summer hyacinth.
  

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• noun evergreen shrub widely cultivated for its large fragrant waxlike white flowers and glossy leaves
  Gardenia jasminoides; Gardenia augusta; cape jasmine.
  

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• . See Jasmine.

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• noun evergreen shrub widely cultivated for its large fragrant waxlike white flowers and glossy leaves
  Gardenia jasminoides; Gardenia augusta; cape jasmine.
  

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• noun small semi-evergreen broad-spreading tree of eastern South Africa with orange-scarlet flowers and small coral-red seeds; yields a light soft wood used for fence posts or shingles
  kaffir boom; Erythrina caffra.
  

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• noun a sandy promontory (formerly Cape Kennedy) extending into the Atlantic Ocean from a barrier island off the eastern coast of Florida; the site of a NASA center for spaceflight
  Cape Canaveral.
  

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• noun small lobster of southern Africa
  Homarus capensis.
  

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• noun any of several South African plants grown for the profusion of usually yellow daisylike flowers and mounds of aromatic foliage
  sun marigold; star of the veldt.
  

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• noun a cape of southeast New Jersey extending into the Atlantic Ocean
  

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• noun North American wood warbler; olive green and yellow striped with black
  Dendroica tigrina.
  

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• noun a point of land in southwestern South Africa (south of Cape Town)
  
• noun a province of western South Africa
  

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• noun a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa
  Cape Colony; Cape of Good Hope Province.
  

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• noun a cape that forms the southeastern corner of the island of Sicily
  Cape Passero.
  
• noun a naval battle in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Passero in which the Spanish navy was destroyed by France and England while attempting to recover Sicily and Sardinia from Italy (1719)
  Passero.
  

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• noun commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
  cayenne jasmine; rose periwinkle; old maid; Madagascar periwinkle; periwinkle; red periwinkle; Catharanthus roseus; Vinca rosea.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a petrel (Daptium Capense) common off the Cape of Good Hope. It is about the size of a pigeon.

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• noun any of various African plants of the genus Streptocarpus widely cultivated especially as houseplants for their showy blue or purple flowers
  

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• noun a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa
  Cape Colony; Cape of Good Hope Province.
  

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• noun a cape at the southwest tip of Florida; the southernmost part of the United States mainland
  
• noun a promontory on the far southern part of Nova Scotia
  

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• noun port city in southwestern South Africa; the seat of the legislative branch of the government of South Africa
  

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• noun a small cape in southwestern Spain
  
  • Nelson defeated the French and Spanish fleets off Cape Trafalgar in 1805

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• noun spectacular plant having large prostrate leaves barred in reddish-purple and flowers with a clump of long yellow stamens in a coral-red cup of fleshy bracts; South Africa
  Haemanthus coccineus.
  

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• noun an island country in the Atlantic off the coast of Senegal
  Cape Verde.
  

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• noun the basic unit of money on Cape Verde; equal to 100 centavos
  escudo.
  

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• noun a group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal
  

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• noun monetary unit on Cape Verde
  

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• wine made in South Africa Eng.

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• noun South African tree or shrub having a rounded crown
  Podocarpus elongatus; African yellowwood.
  

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• noun the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait; the northernmost point of the Australian mainland
  

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• noun a peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea
  

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• noun the capital of Cape Verde on Sao Tiago Island
  Praia; Cidade de Praia.
  

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• etc. (Naut.), sailing around or passing beyond a cape, promontory, etc.

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• noun stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits
  strawberry tomato; Physalis pruinosa.
  

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• noun a cape that forms the southeastern corner of the island of Sicily
  Cape Passero.
  

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• noun an island country in the Atlantic off the coast of Senegal
  Cape Verde.
  

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• the Cape of Good Hope, in the general sense of southern extremity of Africa. Also used of Cape Horn, and, in New England, of Cape Cod.

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• a broad collar or cape of linen and lace with a deep pointed or scalloped edge, worn lying on the shoulders; so called from its appearance in pictures by Vandyke.

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