ramie
- n tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves; cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax
- Deirdre Schwiring and her mother spent $1,400 on everything from ramie curtains to a futon to a flat-screen TV for the junior's 6-ft.
- His plastic, 70% cellulose with a resin binder, is made of soybeans, wheat, cotton, hides, plus a few imported, now hard-to-get ingredients (cork, rubber, tung oil, ramie .
- After conducting more than 200 interviews, the writers assembled T h e La ramie Pro j e c t , a unique playand now a f i l mc reated from verbatim excerpts of c o nversations .