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LACEBARK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lacebark mean?
• LACEBARK (noun)
The noun LACEBARK has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: LACEBARK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Hoheria populnea; houhere; lacebark; ribbonwood
Hypernyms ("lacebark" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Holonyms ("lacebark" is a member of...):
genus Hoheria; Hoheria (small genus of shrubs and small trees of New Zealand: lacebarks)
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