kie-kien.
/ˈkiːkiː/ A New Zealand climbing plant, Freycinetia Banksii (family Pandanaceæ), the leaves of which are woven into baskets, etc. Also attributive.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > other plants yielding fibre, etc.
withe1657
silk grass1753
restio1796
kurrajong1823
lechuguilla1834
kie-kie1847
munj1855
pua1858
sesban1860
settler's twine1898
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [adjective] > of or relating to other fibre or thatch-yielding plants
kapok1735
sea-island1834
kie-kie1847
yedda1918
sweet-grass1926
1847 N.Z. Jrnl. No. 191. 106/1 Passed..through a wet wood of supplejack and kiekie.
1854 W. Golder Pigeons' Parl. Notes 77 The trees were..covered with a kind of parasite plant, called a keekee, having a thick cabbage-like stock.
1873 Buller Birds New Zeal. (1888) II. 317 I drew out the nest materials, consisting of shreds of kiekie-leaves and other dry litter.
1882 T. H. Potts Out in Open 20 The unused food..together with the empty kie-kie baskets.
1905 W. Baucke Where White Man Treads 16 Aye, and kie kie also, with its two kinds of sweet-meats, both on the same vine.
1966 Encycl. N.Z. II. 785/1 The only non-berry fruit of significance was that of kiekie (Freycinetia banksii), the flavour of which has been likened to that of a pear.
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