raffia farinifera

Questions about raffia farinifera

What does raffia farinifera mean?

raffia farinifera means "a large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks".

What is another word for raffia farinifera?

Close synonyms include raffia palm, Raffia ruffia. 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 raffia farinifera a common word?

raffia farinifera 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.