boehmeria nivea

What does boehmeria nivea mean?

boehmeria nivea means "tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves; cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax".

What is another word for boehmeria nivea?

Close synonyms include ramie, ramee, Chinese silk plant, China grass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is boehmeria nivea a common word?

boehmeria nivea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for boehmeria nivea come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.