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 Revision as of 02:32, 1 September 2013      English      Wikipedia     Wikispecies     Alternative forms  Etymology  From Spanish abacá, from Tagalog abaká (native name for the plant).   Pronunciation  Noun  abaca (countable and uncountable; plural abacas)   - Musa textilis, a species of banana tree native to the Philippines grown for its textile and papermaking fibre. [First attested in the mid 18th century.][1]
   - (uncountable) The fiber of this plant, used in rope. [First attested in the mid 18th century.][1]
   
 Synonyms  Translations      Anagrams  References  - ↑ 1.01.1 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 2:
   
 
 French  Pronunciation  Noun  abaca m (plural abacas)   - A banana tree, the abaca
   - Manilla hemp.
   
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