Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

New Zealand \New` Zea"land\
   A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

   {New Zealand flax}.
   (a) (Bot.) A tall, liliaceous herb ({Phormium tenax}), having
       very long, sword-shaped, distichous leaves which furnish
       a fine, strong fiber very valuable for cordage and the
       like.
   (b) The fiber itself.

   {New Zealand tea} (Bot.), a myrtaceous shrub ({Leptospermum
      scoparium}) of New Zealand and Australia, the leaves of
      which are used as a substitute for tea.