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TAPA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark

Synonyms:

tapa; tappa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tapa" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus

Synonyms:

tapa; tapa bark; tappa; tappa bark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tapa" is a kind of...):

bark (tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants)

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