Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun raffia_ruffia

1 sense of raffia ruffia

Sense 1
raffia palm, Raffia farinifera, Raffia ruffia -- (a large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks)
       => palm, palm tree -- (any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves)