Definitionn. a kind of hemp obtained from the abaca plant in the Philippines
Last update: August 18, 2015
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Plants valuable for their fibre number about 300, and among them is the abaca (Musa texilis), from the leaves of which Manila hemp is made. [Please select]
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Particularly plenteous here are the fibrous plants, and abaca forms in its prepared state one of the most important exports of the islands. [noun]
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This species was met with only at Quoin Hill, where it was common around the abaca and wild bananas. [Please select]
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I never saw the species there and took my one specimen in the abaca, where the bird was eating spiders, nectar, and pollen. [Please select]
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This bird was fairly common at Quoin Hill in the abaca and wild bananas and, at Kalabakan, in primary forest. [Please select]
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