New Zealand \New` 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)