raffia ruffia

Questions about raffia ruffia

What does raffia ruffia mean?

raffia ruffia 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 ruffia?

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

raffia ruffia 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.