Flax-stick
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Flax-stick is a noun meaning (New Zealand) The flowering stem of the New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax or Phormium cookianum).
Meaning
(New Zealand) The flowering stem of the New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax or Phormium cookianum).
More Meanings
- (Australia, slang, obsolete) A New Zealander.
Example Sentences
"I always thought Australia was all good country," mused the driver—a flax-stick.
Rafts, or canoes, or “catamarans,” are still occasionally improvised by travellers or explorers in primitive parts of New Zealand, e.g. by Haast, who reports constructing “catamarans” of dead trees when flax-sticks were not obtainable.
Word Forms
- flax-sticks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include flax, flaxbush, phormium, harakeke, flaxwort, fernroot.
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