Crossword clues for raffia
raffia
- Basket material
- Basketry fiber
- Feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes
- Basket fiber
- Weaving fibre
- Fibre used for weaving mats, baskets, etc
- Palm used for baskets
- Palm used for weaving
- Palm tree fibre
- Palm reader initially following lines in, oddly enough, animal
- Palm leaf fibres used to make baskets, mats etc
- Type of palm tree
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Raffia \Raf"fi*a\ (r[a^]f"f[i^]*[.a]), n. (Bot.)
A fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from
the leaves of a palm tree of the genus Raphia.
--J. Smith
(Dict. Econ. Plants).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fiber-yielding tree of Madagascar, 1729, rofia, from Malagasy rafia. Modern form is attested from 1882; also raphia (1866).
Wiktionary
n. A fibrous material used for tying plants, originating from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus (taxlink Raphia genus noshow=1).
WordNet
n. leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree; used to make baskets and mats etc. [syn: raphia]
fiber of a raffia palm used as light cordage and in making hats and baskets
feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes [syn: genus Raffia, Raphia, genus Raphia]
Wikipedia
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.