Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common variety of the New Zealand flax, Phormium tenax.
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Examples
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(The most straight lines i could find in my photos of some harakeke or flax (phormium tenax) that of course aren't straight at all)
Expectations, bottom lines and other geometry faerian 2009
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(The most straight lines i could find in my photos of some harakeke or flax (phormium tenax) that of course aren't straight at all)
Archive 2009-09-01 faerian 2009
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_Otunai-rangi_, of the palm tree (nikau) and flax (harakeke).
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Growing right next door to the museum is all the food and materials for feasts, gifts and domestic appliances, such as raupo, ferns, lancewood, flaxes (harakeke) and horopito.
NZ On Screen 2010
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The trail takes children through five activities: learning about how tuna (eels) were speared and how spears were fixed; how manu (birds) were snared and stored; collecting berries and shoots; gathering harakeke (flax); and making and exchanging gifts.
NZ On Screen 2010
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It includes five activities, including traps and storage for tuna or eels, and snares for manu or birds, as well as displays on the use of plants like raupo, ferns, harakeke and lancewood.
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It includes five activities, including traps and storage for tuna or eels, and snares for manu or birds, as well as displays on the use of plants like raupo, ferns, harakeke and lancewood.
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"All the harakeke was sourced locally in Kawhia which is renowned with weavers for its sturdy variety."
ScreenTalk 2010
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The trail takes children through five activities: learning about how tuna (eels) were speared and how spears were fixed; how manu (birds) were snared and stored; collecting berries and shoots; gathering harakeke (flax); and making and exchanging gifts.
NZ On Screen 2010
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Growing right next door to the museum is all the food and materials for feasts, gifts and domestic appliances, such as raupo, ferns, lancewood, flaxes (harakeke) and horopito.
NZ On Screen 2010
vendingmachine commented on the word harakeke
Phormium tenax tarere. Weaving flax leaves used for kete or baskets. Maori.
December 9, 2015