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Webster 1913 Edition
New Zealand
Newˊ Zea′land
.A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean.
New Zealand flax
. (a)
(Bot.)
A tall, liliaceous herb (
Phormium tenax
), having very long, sword-shaped, distichous leaves which furnish a fine, strong fiber very valuable for cordage and the like. (b)
The fiber itself.
– New Zealand tea
(Bot.)
, a myrtaceous shrub (
Leptospermum scoparium
) of New Zealand and Australia, the leaves of which are used as a substitute for tea.