Search Result for "new zealand":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. an independent country within the British Commonwealth; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1907; known for sheep and spectacular scenery;
2. North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific;
[syn: New Zealand, New Zealand Islands]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
New Zealand \New` Zea"land\ A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. [1913 Webster] New Zealand flax. (a) (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. (b) The fiber itself. New Zealand tea (Bot.), a myrtaceous shrub (Leptospermum scoparium) of New Zealand and Australia, the leaves of which are used as a substitute for tea. [1913 Webster]
