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A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa.

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  1. n. A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa.
  2. n. the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus
  3. n. a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark
  4. A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa.
  5. A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner barkof the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa.
  6. n:100 n. the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus n. a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark