chinese silk plant

What does chinese silk plant mean?

chinese silk plant 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 chinese silk plant?

Close synonyms include ramie, ramee, China grass, Boehmeria nivea. 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 chinese silk plant a common word?

chinese silk plant 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 chinese silk plant come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.