BASSINE
Dictionary entry overview: What does bassine mean? • BASSINE (noun)
The noun BASSINE has 1 sense:
1. coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms
Familiarity information: BASSINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BASSINE (noun)
Meaning:
Coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("bassine" is a kind of...):
fiber; fibre (a slender and greatly elongated solid substance)
Holonyms ("bassine" is a substance of...):
Borassus flabellifer; longar palm; lontar; palmyra; palmyra palm; toddy palm; wine palm (tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving)
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