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
It is an interlacing of raphia and bits of wool, picked up at random, without distinction of shade.
From The Life of the Spider by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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 mole is fixed fore and aft, with a lashing of raphia, to a light horizontal cross-bar resting on two forks.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
With a ligament of raphia I fix him, by his hind-legs, to a twig which I plant vertically in the ground, inserting it to no great depth.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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