| NOUN | plant | genus Raphia, Raffia, genus Raffia, Raphia | feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar / Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes |
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| Meaning | feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar / Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes. | |
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| Synonyms | Raffia, genus Raffia, Raphia | |
| Member of | Palmae, family Palmae, Palmaceae, family Palmaceae, Arecaceae, family Arecaceae, palm family | chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves |
| Members | 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 |
| Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
| Spanish | genus raffia, genus raphia, raffia, rafia, raphia | |
| Catalan | genus raffia, genus raphia, raffia, raphia, Raphia | |
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