[f. TRANS- 7 + Vaal, a tributary of the Orange R. in S. Africa.] A former South African republic, now a state of the Union of South Africa, lying north of the Orange Free State, from which it is separated by the River Vaal.
attrib. Transvaal daisy, Gerbera Jamesonii, a composite plant, introduced from the Transvaal in 1888.
1901. Gardener, 12 Jan., 1049/1. The Transvaal Daisy … has been a bright patch for a long time…. The large flame-coloured flowers … are a particularly fine sight.
Hence Transvaaler, a native or inhabitant of the Transvaal; Transvaalian a., of or belonging to the Transvaal; Transvaalite Min. [-ITE1 2.], a mineral consisting mainly of black oxide of cobalt, resulting from the alteration of cobalt arsenide, found at a cobalt-mine near Middleburg in the Transvaal.
1887. Rider Haggard, Jess, x. 83. You [are] … going to show us *Transvaalers how to do it, eh?
1899. Daily News, 19 Dec., 3/5. That the position of the Britishers under the *Transvaalian oligarchy would, in the end, become absolutely unbearable.
1890. MacGhie & Clark, in Engin. & Mining Jrnl. (N.Y.), L. 96. *Transvaalite.
1896. in Chester, Dict. Min.
