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Noun: Raffia ruffia
  1. A large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fibre from its leafstalks
    - raffia palm, Raffia farinifera

Type of: palm, palm tree

Part of: genus Raffia, genus Raphia, Raffia, Raphia