Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The paper-mulberry
- noun The Nepāl paper-shrub, Daphne cannabina, of the Himalayan region.
- noun An other shrub, Edgeworthia Gardneri, of India, China, etc., whose bark prepared like hemp forms a superior paper-material.
- noun A tree, Streblus (Trophis) asper, called paper-tree of Siam, though common in the East Indies.
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Examples
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Now a Martian paper-tree, even in the mutated form, is quite resistant to U-V, since it evolved under the thin atmosphere of Mars, which gives much less protection from ultraviolet radiation than Earth's does.
Anything You Can Do ... Randall Garrett 1957
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They were looking down from an apparent height of forty feet on a clearing in a paper-tree forest in Siberia.
Anything You Can Do ... Randall Garrett 1957
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I made a ball out of opossum skin, stuffed with the light soft bark of the paper-tree, and stitched with gut.
Adventures of Louis de Rougemont Fitzgerald, F Scott 1899
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We lined the hut with the bark of the paper-tree, which had the appearance of a reddish-brown drapery.
Adventures of Louis de Rougemont Fitzgerald, F Scott 1899
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I made a ball out of opossum skin, stuffed with the light soft bark of the paper-tree, and stitched with gut.
The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont Louis de Rougemont 1884
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We lined the hut with the bark of the paper-tree, which had the appearance of a reddish-brown drapery.
The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont Louis de Rougemont 1884
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The various manufactories of paper here and elsewhere in the country form one of its most extended industries, the basis of the material being the bark of certain trees; indeed, one is on this account designated as the paper-tree, and, being a species of the mulberry, it serves a double purpose, -- its leaves feeding the little insect which is so important a factor in Japanese products.
Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Maturin Murray Ballou 1857
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These were next stopped up by handfuls of xanthorea leaves, or by strips of bark from the paper-tree.
The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844
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Fish and other things are frequently baked in the bark of the paper-tree.
The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844
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Lady, from whom he received the copy of verses on the paper-tree, which, for many years, had been missing. "
Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley Samuel Johnson 1746
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