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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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lacebark
Word definitions for lacebark in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of various New Zealand plants in the genus (taxlink Hoheria genus noshow=1).
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lacebark is a common name for several plants and may refer to: lacebark or lace-bark, a textile made from Lagetta lagetto species lacebark, a common name for species in the genus Brachychiton lacebark, a common name for species in the genus Hoheria lacebark ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
lacebark \lacebark\ n. A small tree or shrub ( Hoheria populnea ) of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage. Syn: ribbonwood, houhere, Hoheria populnea .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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: ribbonwood , houhere , Hoheria populnea ]
Usage examples of lacebark.
Other trees began to appearblue spruce and lacebark pine and white hemlockand gradually the colors of the forest changed from browns and greens to cool silvery blues.
This was no conventional native house made on a platform of basalt stones called a pae-pae, no spindling thing of mattings and framework tied together with cordage of the faufee, or lacebark tree.