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TAPA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark
Synonyms:
tapa; tappa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("tapa" is a kind of...):
cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus
Synonyms:
tapa; tapa bark; tappa; tappa bark
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tapa" is a kind of...):
bark (tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants)