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Ribbonwood

Definitions: Ribbonwood

Ribbonwood

Noun

1. Deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong fiber that resembles flax and is called New Zealand cotton.

2. 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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Ribbonwood

Synonyms: houhere (n), lacebark (n), ribbon tree (n). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ribbonwood

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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  ribbonwood

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Anagrams: Ribbonwood

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-b-d-i-n-o-o-o-r-w"

-2 letters: ironwood.

-3 letters: bridoon, woodbin.

-4 letters: dobbin, indoor, ribbon, robbin.

-5 letters: boron, brood, brown, dobro, donor, drown, indow, robin, rondo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Ribbonwood


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 69 62 62 6F 6E 77 6F 6F 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "ribbonwood"


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