rice paper

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A thin paper made chiefly from the pith of the shrub Tetrapanax papyrifer, native to China.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Paper made from the straw of rice, used in China and Japan and elsewhere.
• noun A name commonly but erroneously applied to a delicate white film prepared in China from the pith of a shrub, Fatsia papyrifera.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A thin, fragile paper made from parts of the rice plant, used in artificial flowers and watercolour art.
• noun loosely Any similar paper made from a plant other than rice, such as bamboo or mulberry.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a thin delicate material resembling paper; made from the rice-paper tree