raphia
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Among them was a man dressed in a full length raphia palm costume.
From Scientific American • Feb. 1, 2012
With this road-metal are mingled short strips of raphia, or palm-fibre, flexible ribbons, easily bent.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
The asparagus is tied in two places with raphia or soft string, and thus makes a neat and attractive package.
From Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them by Anonymous
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
It is an interlacing of raphia and bits of wool, picked up at random, without distinction of shade.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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