| NOUN | plant | bamboo palm, miniature fan palm, fern rhapis, Rhapis excelsa | small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers |
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| plant | bamboo palm, Raffia vinifera | a palm of the genus Raffia |
| Meaning | small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers. | |
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| Synonyms | miniature fan palm, fern rhapis, Rhapis excelsa | |
| Broader | lady palm | Any of several small palms of the genus Rhapis |
| Meaning | A palm of the genus Raffia. | |
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| Synonym | Raffia vinifera | |
| Broader | raffia palm, Raffia farinifera, Raffia ruffia | A large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar / Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks |
| Spanish | palmera bambú, raffia vinifera | |
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