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
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
