New Zealand cotton

New Zealand cotton
noun
a fiber from the bast of New Zealand ribbon trees that resembles cotton fiber
Hypernyms: ↑natural fiber, ↑natural fibre
Substance Holonyms: ↑ribbon tree, ↑ribbonwood, ↑Plagianthus regius, ↑Plagianthus betulinus

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noun
Usage: usually capitalized N&Z
: a fiber from the bast of the ribbon tree

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