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
This is a coarse network of strips of raphia, a fairly accurate imitation of the network of couch-grass roots.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
When Sir John Kirk came home in 1881-1882, I spoke to him on the subject, and he felt confident that the rofia or raphia palm-fronds were the original of the ruc's quills.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule
They have reached the bone, when one of them finds the raphia beneath his mandibles.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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 William Henry Giles Kingston
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