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ribbonwood

ribbonwood noun: any of various plants from Australia and New Zealand in the genera Hoheria, Idiospermum and Plagianthus.

ribbonwood: any of various plants from Australia and New Zealand in the genera Hoheria, Idiospermum and...
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Noun

ribbonwood (countable and uncountable, plural ribbonwoods)

  1. Any of various plants from Australia and New Zealand in the genera Hoheria, Idiospermum and Plagianthus
    1. especially, North Island lacebark (Hoheria populnea)
  2. Redshanks, ribbon bush, a plant of species Adenostoma sparsifolium of southern California in the US and northern Baja California in Mexico.

Forms of ribbonwood

pluralribbonwoods

Origin of ribbonwood

From ribbon + wood

Questions about ribbonwood

What does ribbonwood mean?
Ribbonwood means any of various plants from Australia and New Zealand in the genera Hoheria, Idiospermum and Plagianthus.
What part of speech is ribbonwood?
Ribbonwood is a noun.
What is the plural of ribbonwood?
The plural of ribbonwood is ribbonwoods.

Words near ribbonwood in the dictionary

  1. ribbonsnakes
  2. ribbontail
  3. ribbontails
  4. ribbonweed
  5. ribbonweeds
  6. ribbonwood
  7. ribbonwoods
  8. ribbonworm
  9. ribbonworms
  10. ribbonwort
  11. ribbony

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