New Zealand flax

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(Bot.)	See Flax-plant.
(Bot.)	A tall, liliaceous herb (Phormium tenax), having very long, sword-shaped, distichous leaves which furnish a fine, strong fiber very valuable for cordage and the like.
	The fiber itself.

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