manila : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898); the American fleet under Admiral Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet
  

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• noun a tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings; Old World tropics
  winged bean; Psophocarpus tetragonolobus; winged pea; goa bean; goa bean vine.
  

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• a cheroot or cigar made of tobacco grown in the Philippine Islands.

Webster 1913

• noun lawn grass common in the Philippines; grown also in United States
  Zoysia matrella; Japanese carpet grass.
  

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• noun a kind of hemp obtained from the abaca plant in the Philippines
  abaca; Manilla hemp.
  
• noun Philippine banana tree having leafstalks that yield Manila hemp used for rope and paper etc
  abaca; Musa textilis.
  

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• a fibrous material obtained from the Musa textilis, a plant allied to the banana, growing in the Philippine and other East India islands; called also by the native name abaca. From it matting, canvas, ropes, and cables are made.

Webster 1913

• noun hard fiber used in making coarse twine; from Philippine agave plants
  cantala; Cebu maguey.
  

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• noun a strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp
  manilla; manilla paper; manila.
  

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• a durable brown or buff paper made of Manila hemp, used as a wrapping paper, and as a cheap printing and writing paper. The name is also given to inferior papers, made of other fiber.

Webster 1913

• noun common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum
  camachile; wild tamarind; Pithecellobium dulce; huamachil.
  

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