piassava palm

Questions about piassava palm

What does piassava palm mean?

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

What is another word for piassava palm?

Close synonyms include pissaba palm, Bahia piassava, bahia coquilla, Attalea funifera. 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 piassava palm a common word?

piassava palm 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.