attalea funifera

Questions about attalea funifera

What does attalea funifera mean?

attalea funifera means "Brazilian palm yielding fibers used in making ropes, mats, and brushes".

What is another word for attalea funifera?

Close synonyms include piassava palm, pissaba palm, Bahia piassava, bahia coquilla. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is attalea funifera a common word?

attalea funifera is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.