lacebark, ribbonwood, houhere, Hoheria populnea
(noun) 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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ribbonwood (countable and uncountable, plural ribbonwoods)
Any of various plants from Australia and New Zealand in the genera Hoheria, Idiospermum and Plagianthus.
Adenostoma sparsifolium of southern California in the US and northern Baja California in Mexico. Also called redshanks
Source: Wiktionary
Rib"bon*wood`, n. (Bot.)
Definition: A malvaceous tree (Hoheria populnea) of New Zealand, the bark of which is used for cordage.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 July 2025
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
