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BASSINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bassine" is a kind of...):
fiber; fibre (a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn)
Holonyms ("bassine" is a substance of...):
Borassus flabellifer; longar palm; lontar; palmyra; palmyra palm; toddy palm; wine palm (tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving)