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BAMBOO PALM

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A palm of the genus Raffia

Synonyms:

bamboo palm; Raffia vinifera

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bamboo palm" is a kind of...):

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers

Synonyms:

bamboo palm; fern rhapis; miniature fan palm; Rhapis excelsa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bamboo palm" is a kind of...):

lady palm (any of several small palms of the genus Rhapis; cultivated as houseplants)

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