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Teeming (with)
Answer for the clue "Teeming (with) ", 6 letters:
raffia
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Word definitions for raffia in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fiber-yielding tree of Madagascar, 1729, rofia , from Malagasy rafia . Modern form is attested from 1882; also raphia (1866).
Usage examples of raffia.
Instead, he and his companions camped on the deck, sleeping on raffia mats under a canvas awning that slanted steeply from the rail of the quarterdeck to a cleat by the cargo well.
They sat on rolled raffia mats under the awning, their faces lit by a single candle which flickered in a resin holder.
For weeks I have been feeding my furnace a mixture of coke, slack, wood-shavings, cannel coal and odds and ends of rope and raffia from the floor of my coal bin, and now it is all gone.
And then the ruins of the ancient mortuaries, more extensive than the town, and fields of yams and raffia and yellow peas, and flooded paddies where rice and paeonin were grown.
Spreading her raffia mat by the bed, presently filled with pansies, Alathea knelt, tugged on her cotton gloves, and set to.