Home › Words › R › ribbonwoodribbonwoodribbonwood means any of various plants from Australia and New Zealand in the genera Hoheria, Idiospermum and Plagianthus.EtymologyFrom ribbon + woodnounAny of various plants from Australia and New Zealand in the genera Hoheria, Idiospermum and PlagianthusAny of various plants from Australia and New Zealand in the genera Hoheria, Idiospermum and Plagianthus; especially, North Island lacebark (Hoheria populnea)Redshanks, ribbon bush, a plant of species Adenostoma sparsifolium of southern California in the US and northern Baja California in Mexico.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.socketwood 69% match — Any of various plants of the genus Daphnandra, native to Australia. vs ribbonwood →needlewood 66% match — The an Australian tree or shrub, Acacia palustris. vs ribbonwood →bloodwood 66% match — Any of various trees having red wood:; Certain eucalypts vs ribbonwood →waddywood 66% match — An Australian tree, Pittosporum bicolor. vs ribbonwood →bonewood 65% match — An eastern Australian tree of species Acradenia euodiiformis. vs ribbonwood →lacebark 64% match — Any of various New Zealand plants in the genus Hoheria. vs ribbonwood →wirilda 62% match — An Australian acacia tree, Acacia retinodes, which has edible seeds. vs ribbonwood →bottletree 62% match — Any of the genus Brachychiton of trees and large shrubs native to Australia. vs ribbonwood →