Crossword clues for broussonetia
broussonetia
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Broussonetia \Broussonetia\ n. a genus of shade trees including the paper mulberry ( Broussonetia papyrifera) of East Asia.
Syn: genus Broussonetia.
Wikipedia
Broussonetia is a genus of four species of trees in the family Moraceae, native to eastern Asia. One of these is the paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera), whose bark fiber is used to make high-quality paper, particularly in Japan. This species has been widely introduced and has become invasive in some areas.
Usage examples of "broussonetia".
He told us at once that, according to Kempfer and du Halde, the Broussonetia furnishes the substance of the Chinese paper.
The offerings to a greater shrine consisted of coarse woven silk (_ashiginu_), thin silk of five different colors, a kind of stuff called _shidori_ or _shidzu_, which is supposed by some to have been a striped silk, cloth of broussonetia bark or hemp, and a small quantity of the raw materials of which the cloth was made, models of swords, a pair of tables or altars (called _yo-kura-oki_ and _ya-kura-oki_), a shield or mantlet, a spear-head, a bow, a quiver, a pair of stag's horns, a hoe, a few measures of sake or rice-beer, some haliotis and bonito, two measures of _kituli_ (supposed to be salt roe), various kinds of edible seaweed, a measure of salt, a sake jar, and a few feet of matting for packing.