Queensland grass-cloth plant
- noun
- Australian
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planta de tela de hierba de Queensland
- Traditional weavers in Australia have long used the Queensland grass-cloth plant to make cloth.
Examples
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The fiber from the Queensland grass-cloth plant is prized for its strength and durability.
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The Queensland grass-cloth plant is native to Australia.
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Botanists study the Queensland grass-cloth plant for its unique properties and ecological value.
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Many artisans use Queensland grass-cloth plants for their textiles.
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The fiber from the Queensland grass-cloth plant is prized for its strength and durability.
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Traditional weavers in Australia have long used the Queensland grass-cloth plant to make cloth.
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Botanists study the Queensland grass-cloth plant for its unique properties and ecological value.
Synonyms
A small Australian shrub or tree with strong fibers used to make cloth
A plant with hard stems like a small tree or shrub that grows in Australia and nearby islands
Surface Forms
Morphology
Queensland + grass-cloth + plant
The phrase names a plant from Queensland whose fibers are used to make 'grass cloth'; a B1 learner who knows 'Queensland', 'grass' and 'cloth' can infer that 'grass-cloth' means cloth made from grasses and thus that a 'grass-cloth plant' is a plant used to produce that material. This is a straightforward noun-noun compounding (location + material + object) and follows transparent compositional patterns common across languages.
Etymology
Queensland grass-cloth plant comes from a simple picture: a plant in Queensland whose long, strong fibers were used as grass-cloth to make cloth. So the name means 'a plant whose fiber is used for making cloth'.
