- Leptospermum scoparium
- New Zealand New` Zea"land
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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
