manilla hemp

1. 1.

   a kind of hemp obtained from the abaca plant in the Philippines

   SynonymsManila hempabaca

   Broaderhemp

Questions about manilla hemp

What does manilla hemp mean?

manilla hemp means "a kind of hemp obtained from the abaca plant in the Philippines".

What is another word for manilla hemp?

Close synonyms include Manila hemp, abaca. 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 manilla hemp a common word?

manilla hemp 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.