[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tapa \ta"pa\, n.
   a kind of cloth prepared by the polynesians from the inner
   bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa.
   1913 webster tapadera
see also:
kapa 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

tapa
     n 1: thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and pipturus albidus
          syn: tappa
     2: a paperlike cloth made in the south pacific by pounding tapa
        bark syn: tappa
see also:
tappa 

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