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1. feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | liliopsid genus, monocot genus, |
definition | : | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | raffia farinifera, raffia palm, raffia ruffia, |
definition | : | a large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks (noun.plant) |
2. leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree; used to make baskets and mats etc. (noun.substance)
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