vleis

Mexico are facing Uruguay in an all-important Group A clash and he is likely to need something like 250 kilogrammes of "vleis" and "boerwors".

The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

Fossil dunes deposited in the Pleistocene and extensive dambos (shallow, seasonally inundated pans or vleis) that have formed in river valleys and dune troughs are a characteristic feature of the ecoregion.

Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands 2008

As you neared the tree-stripped vleis on the outskirts of Salisbury, there were glimpses of high-density housing and the occasional mud hut or shanty thrown up without the pride of those in the rural districts, followed by suburbs of small, beige houses, where the Coloureds and Indians lived, and the grander spreads of the mainly white areas, where garden boys tended to perfect beds of flowers and children splashed in sparkly aquamarine pools.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

Incised coastal river valleys filled as sea levels rose during the late Holocene, resulting in the deposition of fertile alluvial material along drainage lines and the formation of pans, swamps, and vleis where drainage lines became submerged.

Maputaland coastal forest mosaic 2007

Surrounding the house on three sides was the game reserve, one hundred wild acres of thorny bush, sun-bleached vleis, deep gullies, great twisted trees, and abandoned mine workings.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

Numerous grassy wetlands are interspersed along drainage lines in vleis or dambos.

Southern Miombo woodlands 2007

Surrounding the house on three sides was the game reserve, one hundred wild acres of thorny bush, sun-bleached vleis, deep gullies, great twisted trees, and abandoned mine workings.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

These sands can reach more than 60 m in depth and have relatively high water tables, although most of the dambos (shallow pans or vleis) are permanently dry, and there is an almost complete lack of permanent surface water.

Zambezian Cryptosepalum dry forests 2007

As you neared the tree-stripped vleis on the outskirts of Salisbury, there were glimpses of high-density housing and the occasional mud hut or shanty thrown up without the pride of those in the rural districts, followed by suburbs of small, beige houses, where the Coloureds and Indians lived, and the grander spreads of the mainly white areas, where garden boys tended to perfect beds of flowers and children splashed in sparkly aquamarine pools.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

Outside the stadium, street vendors were all smiles as they did brisk trade in pap and vleis, cold drinks, bottles of brandy, beer and ANC paraphernalia.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999