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GENUS RAPHIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes
Synonyms:
genus Raffia; genus Raphia; Raffia; Raphia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Raphia" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Raphia"):
Raffia farinifera; raffia palm; Raffia ruffia (a large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks)
Holonyms ("genus Raphia" is a member of...):
Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales)
