Meanings of abaca in English

Manufactures consist in fabrics of abaca and canonegro, of which boat cables are made.

The chief products are abaca, rice, and cocoanuts, oil being extracted from the latter.

There are gold and copper mines, and much tobacco, sugar, rice, and abaca is raised.

Freshen up sunrooms and glass box extensions with this collection of steel frame abaca weave furniture.

They are somewhat mountainous and well wooded, and coffee, abaca, sugar cane, and tobacco are raised.

The principal product of the island is abaca, but rice is also raised and cocoanut oil is extracted.

We were shown a species of banana, called abaca, the finer filaments of which, mixed with silk, are manufactured into native cloth.

The officials were anxious to grow abaca, cacao, sugar cane and coconuts, all products of the Philippines, the soil of which resembled theirs.

Abaca and palay are raised, and in the gold washings considerable gold of good quality is found.

ABACA, or ABAKA, a native name for the plant Musa textilis, which produces the fibre called Manila Hemp (q.v.).