abaca
Example Sentences
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From a helicopter, “we saw the devastation of coconuts, abaca and the forests. There are lots of houses without roofs,” Lorenzana said by text message.
From Washington Times • Dec. 27, 2016
The artist Randy Brozen will lead the workshop, showing young artists how to make paper from the fibers of cotton and abaca, a type of banana tree that grows in the Philippines.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2014
A little further on, we pass an older man in a Diesel T-shirt, shredding abaca bark to make twine.
From Slate • Feb. 29, 2012
Manila hemp comes from abaca, a plant much like the one bananas grow on.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were shown a species of banana, called abaca, the finer filaments of which, mixed with silk, are manufactured into native cloth.
From In the Eastern Seas by Kingston, William Henry Giles
