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tapa

Noun

ta=pa

WORDNET DICTIONARY

tapa(n = noun.plant) tapa bark, tappa, tappa bark - the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus; Array

is a kind of bark

tapa(n = noun.artifact) tappa - a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark; Array

is a kind of cloth, fabric, material, textile

tapa, n.

A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa. [1913 Webster]

tapa, n.
1 the bark of a paper-mulberry tree.
2 cloth made from this, used in the Pacific islands.

Etymology

Polynesian

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