phormium

See also: Phormium

English

Phormium tenax in bloom in Piha, west Auckland, New Zealand

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

phormium (plural phormiums)

1. Any liliaceous plant in the genus, New Zealand flax.

Translations

New Zealand flax

• French: phormion (fr) m, phormium (fr) m, lin de Nouvelle-Zélande (fr)
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• Russian: фо́рмиум m (fórmium)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “phormium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)