Definitions for abaca

abaca a·ba·ca

Spelling: [ab-uh-kah, ah-buh-]
IPA: /ˌæb əˈkɑ, ˌɑ bə-/

Abaca is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in abaca (aaabc).

Definitions for abaca

noun

  1. a Philippine plant, Musa textilis.
  2. the fiber of this plant, used in making rope, fabrics, etc.

Origin of abaca

1810-20; Spanish Tagalog abaká

Examples for abaca

I never saw the species there and took my one specimen in the abaca, where the bird was eating spiders, nectar, and pollen.

Weavers of abaca left their looms and hung out of the windows to talk with their neighbours about the great event.

They make excellent stuffs of cotton and of abaca, dyeing them various colours with extracts of the woods grown in the country.

This species was met with only at Quoin Hill, where it was common around the abaca and wild bananas.

The abaca fiber is not spun or wrung, but is jointed end to end.

Another use of mats is in the baling of two of the staple products of the Philippines, tobacco and abaca.

The women weave and sell beautiful fabrics of pina, silk, cotton and abaca.

When will you make hemp from that abaca you cut into pieces?

This bird was fairly common at Quoin Hill in the abaca and wild bananas and, at Kalabakan, in primary forest.

It is usually found growing in well drained soil under the shade of banana and abaca plants and areca palms.

Word Value for abaca
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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