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Definition of Pipturus argenteus
1. Noun. Australian plant of genus Pipturus whose fiber is used in making cloth.
Group relationships: Genus Pipturus, Pipturus
Generic synonyms: Ligneous Plant, Woody Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pipturus Argenteus
Literary usage of Pipturus argenteus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"... are made of the inner bark of the wali tree, pipturus argenteus. This is the
Queensland grass-cloth plant or native mulberry of Australia; Maiden states ..."
2. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder (1908)
"... mucilage- canals in the pith and cortex of Boehmeria platyphylla, Don et Ham.
and pipturus argenteus, Hort. (Möller, Engler). ..."
3. The Microscopy of Technical Products by Thomas Franz Hanausek (1907)
"... b); and third, the inner tube here and there visible as a yellow-green
membrane (c). ROA FIBER, obtained from pipturus argenteus (order ..."
4. Dictionary of Textiles by Louis Harmuth (1915)
"Piripiri—'Fine stem fiber of the pipturus argenteus in Tahiti; used for cords,
nets and bags. Pirl—Gold or silver thread made spiral by winding. ..."
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