RAPHIA
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)
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)
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; Raphia; Raffia
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)
