1. tapa(n = noun.plant) tapa bark, tappa, tappa bark - the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus;
is a kind of bark
2. tapa(n = noun.artifact) tappa - a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark;
is a kind of cloth, fabric, material, textile
A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also
tapa, n.
1 the bark of a paper-mulberry tree.
2 cloth made from this, used in the Pacific islands.
Etymology:
Polynesian