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ram⋅ie

  [ram-ee, rey-mee]
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–noun
1. an Asian shrub, Boehmeria nivea, of the nettle family, yielding a fiber used esp. in making textiles.
2. the fiber itself.
Origin:
1810–20; < Malay rami a kind of grass
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ram·ie   (rām'ē, rā'mē)   
n.  
  1. A tropical Asian perennial herb (Boehmeria nivea) having broad leaves and densely branched panicles of small, unisexual, apetalous flowers.
  2. The flaxlike fiber from the stem of this plant, used in making fabrics and cordage.

[Malay rami.]
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Ram"ie\, n. [From Malay.] (Bot.) The grasscloth plant (B[oe]hmeria nivea); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also China grass, and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.
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any of several fibre-yielding plants of the genus Boehmeria, belonging to the nettle family (Urticaceae), and their fibre, one of the bast fibre (q.v.) group. Boehmeria nivea, native to China, is the species usually cultivated for fibre, although B. nivea variety tenacissima, native to Malaysia and frequently called rhea, is also a fibre source

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