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new zealand
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new zealand,
A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. [1913 Webster]
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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