new zealand : Idioms & Phrases
New Zealand flax
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(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.
Webster 1913
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.