New Zealand \New` Zea"land\
A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean.
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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.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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