abaca
Americannoun
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a Philippine plant, Musa textilis.
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the fiber of this plant, used in making rope, fabrics, etc.
noun
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a Philippine plant, Musa textilis, related to the banana: family Musaceae. Its leafstalks are the source of Manila hemp
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another name for Manila hemp
Etymology
Origin of abaca
1810–20; < Spanish < Tagalog abaká
Example Sentences
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From a helicopter, “we saw the devastation of coconuts, abaca and the forests. There are lots of houses without roofs,” Lorenzana said by text message.
From Washington Times • Dec. 27, 2016
The artist Randy Brozen will lead the workshop, showing young artists how to make paper from the fibers of cotton and abaca, a type of banana tree that grows in the Philippines.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2014
A little further on, we pass an older man in a Diesel T-shirt, shredding abaca bark to make twine.
From Slate • Feb. 29, 2012
The U.S. could discuss concessions on as many as 3,500 different items, including abaca, Bibles, goat meat, curling stones, unbleached teasels and zinc dust.
From Time Magazine Archive
The abaca is produced from the fibrous parts of the bark of the wild banana tree, found in the Philippines.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 by Various
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