The value of the coasting trade in 1852 is stated to have been about four and a-half millions of dollars, half this value being in abaca (Manila hemp), sugar and rice being the next articles in importance.
Wild honey is collected by the natives of the interior, and stuffs of cotton and abaca are woven for domestic use.
This bird was fairly common at Quoin Hill in the abaca and wild bananas and, at Kalabakan, in primary forest.
This species was met with only at Quoin Hill, where it was common around the abaca and wild bananas.
Seated at her window she would hear a roaring tattoo in the grove of abaca palms to the south.
The almost universal custom is to plant, for temporary shelter, suckers of fruiting bananas, but throughout the Visayas and in Southern Luzon I thinkabaca could be advantageously substituted.
He wrote a report, but I have never heard that any abaca was produced.
The chief exports areAbaca (Manila hemp), and rice.
In Camarines and Albay the fabrics of abaca are more commonly woven, and in Cebu the women are accustomed to work at the loom.
On the mountain slopes the Musa textilis, or abaca plant, finds its most congenial habitat.
The abaca attains an average height of ten feet, though it sometimes grows much higher.
The abaca can be raised from seed; in which case it requires four years to flower.
The most marked distinction is in the fruit, that of the abaca being small and unfit for eating.
Abaca has also been planted in British India, and flourished as well there as at Saigon, but the effort to produce hemp from it failed through ignorance of the proper method of the drawing of the fibre.
Work on an abaca estate is performed on the co-operative plan.
Abaca planting, it is true, was tried successfully in the botanical gardens at Saigon, Cochin China, but the experiment was abandoned, for some reason unexplained.
Akuy mulábid niíning lánut, I will braid these abaca fibers into rope.
Pagtuksì ug lapnis nga ibugkus sa kináhuy, Pull off some of the outer strips of the abaca to tie the firewood up with.
AN; a] strip the outer part ofabaca to get the fibers.
A; a12] tieabaca fiber into a bundle as thick as one’s thumb by knotting the end.
It is attached to a pole and used to clear dried leaves off of banana and abaca plants.
An abaca plant grows to a height of ten feet or more, bearing long fanlike leaves that wave gracefully in the breeze and shut out the sun's rays so completely that noontime in an abaca field is like twilight.
Outside is a large courtyard crowded with carabao carts piled high with fresh abaca which men are weighing and sorting as it is unloaded.
At six o'clock the last bale of abaca had been stowed away in the hold, the hatches were closed, the anchor was lifted, and the voyage began.
Sometimes threads of silk are woven in with the abaca fiber and the cloth is then called jusi (hoo'-si).
The planter usually sells his abaca to a shipper who has a baling machine and large warehouses in some seaport town, with his own wharves for loading the freight on steamers bound for Manila or foreign ports.
They need some shade, especially when young, but not the heavy shade of an abaca or banana grove.
It is usually found growing in well drained soil under the shade of banana and abaca plants and areca palms.
Coarse buri mats are almost exclusively used in wrapping abaca for the export trade.
The command car whisked by anabaca plantation, with mile after mile of lush green bananalike abaca plants extending into the foothills.
The Hindu boy appeared on a bale of abacaand waved both arms until they saw him, then he motioned them to the left and ran down the dock.
This abaca costs twenty-four reals per quintal, and is made into rigging in Cabite by the Indian natives, in the sizes and diameter required.
He led the way through the long rows of abacawhich drooped listless fronds in the quivering heat, and into the cool woods which surrounded his fields.
On the other hand, in strength and elasticity the abaca surpasses its rival, as has been proved by repeated experiments, especially over common European, and even Russian, hemp.
Manufactures consist in fabrics of abaca and canonegro, of which boat cables are made.
There are gold and copper mines, and much tobacco, sugar, rice, and abaca is raised.
Abaca and palay are raised, and in the gold washings considerable gold of good quality is found.
Besides cotton, the fibers of the abaca or hemp plant was also used for weaving; in fact, the latter must have been used even before the former.
Jagor gives credit to the two American houses in the Philippines for the development of the abaca into an important article of export.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abaca" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
