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Meanings of ramie in English
Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves; cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax.
Usage of ramie in English
1
The next in importance to linen is ramie or rhea, and China grass.
2
The principal vegetable fibers are cotton, flax, ramie, jute, and hemp.
3
The ramie mantle was found to possess a greater life than the cotton mantle.
4
There was plenty of the ramie cloth at hand, but it was quite yellow.
5
Ginghams are also woven of silk and cotton mixed or of silk and ramie.
6
Cotton was first used; then ramie fibers were introduced.
7
How the yellow ramie cloth was made white.
8
Their ramie fiber top was of a light yellowish color, which looked bright in the moonlight.
9
Here it is, Harry; here is a low place, and you can see the ramie plant all about here.
10
They had conspicuously displayed the ramie cloth, made in different colors, which had been woven during the past two weeks.
11
There are other vegetable fibers such as jute, hemp, ramie, pineapple, etc., but cotton and linen are the most important.
12
Were ramie, cotton, flax, or hemp present, they would be observed, as all their fibers remain unchanged under this treatment.
13
Rhea which is also known under the name of ramie, is a textile plant which was indigenous to China and India.
14
This plant resembles ramie and belongs to the nettle family also, but it is without the troublesome resin of the ramie.
15
The ramie fibre held my body to the supporting post of the centipede, and I heard Holman give a muttered order.
16
Various experiments were carried out with cotton, silk and ramie, and, as a result, silk treated with Ioco was finally selected.
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