Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small handsome malvaceous tree, Hoheria populnea, of New Zealand. Its bark affords a demulcent drink, and also serves for cordage. It is doubtless named from the ribbon-like strips of its bark.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A malvaceous tree (
Hoheria populnea ) of New Zealand, the bark of which is used for cordage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Common name of various
plants from Australia and New Zealand in the genera Hoheria, Idiospermum and Plagianthius. - noun Common name of Adenostoma sparsifolium of southern
California in the US and northernBaja California in Mexico. Also calledredshanks
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong fiber that resembles flax and is called New Zealand cotton
- noun small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage
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Examples
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The Chatham Islands ribbonwood (Plagianthus divaricatus), mahoe (Melicytus ramiflorus), akeake, and flax have all flourished since domestic stock were removed from the island.
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There are only 2 I know of in NZ tree fuchsia, ribbonwood.
Doing autumn all on its lonesome StyleyGeek 2007
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The stanchly duckbill ribbonwood been myelinic, but all the surgery of the pharmacologically bourgeoisie place were psychogenic from stogy.
POWET.TV 2009
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