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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 New Zea·land /ˈzilənd/
 新西蘭

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 New Zealand
      n 1: an independent country within the British Commonwealth;
           achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1907;
           known for sheep and spectacular scenery
      2: North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in
         the South Pacific