BAMBOO PALM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bamboo palm mean? 

• BAMBOO PALM (noun)
  The noun BAMBOO PALM has 2 senses:

1. small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers

2. a palm of the genus Raffia

  Familiarity information: BAMBOO PALM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAMBOO PALM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bamboo palm; fern rhapis; miniature fan palm; Rhapis excelsa

Hypernyms ("bamboo palm" is a kind of...):

lady palm (any of several small palms of the genus Rhapis; cultivated as houseplants)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A palm of the genus Raffia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bamboo palm; Raffia vinifera

Hypernyms ("bamboo palm" is a kind of...):

Raffia farinifera; raffia palm; Raffia ruffia (a large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks)