flax-stick

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The flowering stem of the New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax or Phormium cookianum). New-Zealand
    — Rafts, or canoes, or “catamarans,” are still occasionally improvised by travellers or explorers in primitive parts of New Zealand, e.g. by Haast, who reports constructing “catamarans” of dead trees when flax-sticks were not obtainable.
  2. A New Zealander. Australia,obsolete,slang
    — "I always thought Australia was all good country," mused the driver—a flax-stick.

词形变化

flax-sticks plural flax stick alternative
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