Ramie

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Ramie has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Ramien. [From Malay.].
     The grasscloth plant (B); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also China grass, and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Ramie, n.
1 any of various tall East Asian plants of the genus Boehmeria, esp. B. nivea.
2 a strong fibre obtained from this, woven into cloth.

Etymology
Malay rami

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