RAPHIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Raphia mean? 

• RAPHIA (noun)
  The noun RAPHIA has 2 senses:

1. leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree; used to make baskets and mats etc.

2. feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes

  Familiarity information: RAPHIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAPHIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree; used to make baskets and mats etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

raffia; raphia

Hypernyms ("raphia" is a kind of...):

plant fiber; plant fibre (fiber derived from plants)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Raffia; genus Raphia; Raffia; Raphia

Hypernyms ("Raphia" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Raphia"):

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)

Holonyms ("Raphia" is a member of...):

Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales)