a strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp

the capital and largest city of the Philippines; located on southern Luzon

a naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898); the American fleet under Admiral Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet

a tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings; Old World tropics

lawn grass common in the Philippines; grown also in United States

a kind of hemp obtained from the abaca plant in the Philippines

Philippine banana tree having leafstalks that yield Manila hemp used for rope and paper etc

hard fiber used in making coarse twine; from Philippine agave plants

a strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp

common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum