資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
New Zealand \New` Zea"land\
A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean.
{New Zealand flax}.
(a) (Bot.) A tall, liliaceous herb ({Phormium tenax}), having
very long, sword-shaped, distichous leaves which furnish
a fine, strong fiber very valuable for cordage and the
like.
(b) The fiber itself.
{New Zealand tea} (Bot.), a myrtaceous shrub ({Leptospermum
scoparium}) of New Zealand and Australia, the leaves of
which are used as a substitute for tea.