abaca

Example Sentences

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From a helicopter, “we saw the devastation of coconuts, abaca and the forests. There are lots of houses without roofs,” Lorenzana said by text message.

From Washington Times • Dec. 27, 2016

The artist Randy Brozen will lead the workshop, showing young artists how to make paper from the fibers of cotton and abaca, a type of banana tree that grows in the Philippines.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2014

A little further on, we pass an older man in a Diesel T-shirt, shredding abaca bark to make twine.

From Slate • Feb. 29, 2012

Manila hemp comes from abaca, a plant much like the one bananas grow on.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seated at her window she would hear a roaring tattoo in the grove of abaca palms to the south.

From Caybigan by Hopper, James