NEW ZEALAND COTTON

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Meaning:

A fiber from the bast of New Zealand ribbon trees that resembles cotton fiber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("New Zealand cotton" is a kind of...):

natural fiber; natural fibre (fiber derived from plants or animals)

Holonyms ("New Zealand cotton" is a substance of...):

Plagianthus betulinus; Plagianthus regius; ribbon tree; ribbonwood (deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong fiber that resembles flax and is called New Zealand cotton)