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China grass

noun

tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves; cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax

• Syn: ↑ramie, ↑ramee, ↑Chinese silk plant, ↑Boehmeria nivea

• Hypernyms: ↑false nettle, ↑bog hemp

• Member Holonyms: ↑Boehmeria, ↑genus Boehmeria

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noun

Usage: usually capitalized C

1. : the stiff dried hand-cleaned but not completely degummed fiber of ramie — called also bon

2. : ramie 1

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China grass noun

Rami

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Main Entry: ↑china

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China grass,

1. the fiber of a plant of warm climates used to make grass cloth.

2. the plant itself; ramie.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.