raphia
Americannoun
noun
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Among them was a man dressed in a full length raphia palm costume.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 1, 2012
The Mole is now fixed with a lashing of raphia fore and aft to a light horizontal cross-bar which rests on two firmly-planted forks.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
You find here enormous acacias, monkey-bread trees, raphia palms and baobabs; less gloom, and fewer creeping and hanging plants.
From The Pools of Silence by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)
More curious is the raphia, with plume-like leaves, sometimes from forty to fifty feet in length, starting also from a short stem—almost from the ground.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles
The candelabra, sumauméra, the manicaria, and raphia, with their enormous leaves, and other palms innumerable, tower towards the sky.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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