raffia palm

Questions about raffia palm

What does raffia palm mean?

raffia palm 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 palm?

Close synonyms include Raffia farinifera, 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 palm a common word?

raffia 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.