Akademik

ribbonwood

noun

1. 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

• Syn: ↑lacebark, ↑houhere, ↑Hoheria populnea

• Hypernyms: ↑tree

• Member Holonyms: ↑Hoheria, ↑genus Hoheria

2. deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong fiber that resembles flax and is called New Zealand cotton

• Syn: ↑ribbon tree, ↑Plagianthus regius, ↑Plagianthus betulinus

• Hypernyms: ↑tree

• Member Holonyms: ↑Plagianthus, ↑genus Plagianthus

• Substance Meronyms: ↑New Zealand cotton

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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun

1. : a New Zealand shrub or small tree (Hoheria populnea) of the family Malvaceae having bark that is used for cordage and a profusion of small snow-white flowers in close axillary clusters — called also houhere

2. : ribbon tree

3. West : a small tree or shrub (Adenostoma sparsifolium) related to the chamiso

Useful english dictionary. 2012.