(n.) The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mosquito density in Rangas where abaca is in abundance is much higher, almost twice, than that of Putiao where abaca is absent.
(2) Aedes poicilius, which breeds in abaca and banana plants, was found to be very anthropophilic, comprising 96.5% of the mosquitoes biting man.
(3) The banana axils is a favorite breeding place for Aedes poecilus but may also utilize the abaca axils.
(4) This finding is very favorable in the transmission of bancroftian filariasis because this species of banana is planted around houses even closer to human dwelling than the abaca plants.
(5) Each was paired with a confederate, also a male college senior, in an ABACA single subject design.
(6) poicilius accounted for 58% of larvae found in the axils of banana plants and 31% of those in abaca axils; negligible numbers of larvae of this species were found in pandanus and gabi axils.