ramie

A perennial herb or shrub (Boehmeria nivea) native to eastern Asia and cultivated elsewhere, having broad leaves and clusters of small greenish flowers.

The flaxlike fiber from the stem of this plant, used in making fabrics and cordage.

A plant, the so-called China grass, Bœhmeria ni-vea, or its fiber.

The grasscloth plant (Bœhmeria nivea); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; — called also China grass, and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under grass.

a tall, tropical Asian perennial herb, Boehmeria nivea, cultivated for its fibrous stems

the fibre extracted from this plant, resembling flax

tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves; cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax