| 单词 | piassava palm |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspiassava palm 1. More fully piassava palm. Either of two South American palms, Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia piassaba, from the leaf-bases of which a coarse fibre is obtained. Later also: the African palm Raphia vinifera. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > other palms prickly palm1666 thorny palm1666 palm1681 sagwire1681 wine-palm1681 prickle-palm1684 prickly pole1696 brab1698 palmyra1698 thatch-tree1756 double coconut1775 nibong1779 nipa1779 rhapis1789 cocorite1796 groo-groo1796 borassus1798 cohune1805 traveller's tree1809 tucum1810 gomuti1811 taliera1814 lontar1820 salak1820 ground-rattan1823 geonoma1824 tucuma1824 nikau1827 wax-palm1830 murumuru1834 piassava1835 traveller's palm1850 bangalow1851 inajá palm1853 jacitara1853 peach palm1853 pupunha palm1853 jipijapa1858 urucuri1860 climbing palm1863 sea-apple1864 Alexandra palm1865 coquito1866 thatch1866 thatch-palm1866 açai1868 walking-stick palm1869 kentia1870 toquilla1877 Guadalupe palm1895 tortoiseshell palm1902 pimpler1909 1835 Penny Cycl. III. 54/1 Attalea funifera, called by the natives piaçaba... The best cordage in America, for naval purposes, is manufactured from the fibres of the leaf-stalks and other parts. 1853 A. R. Wallace Narr. Trav. Amazon ix. 243 That curious palm the Piassába... I..have called it Leopoldina Piassaba. 1889 G. S. Boulger Uses of Plants vi. 171 Pará Piassaba, of which the ramenta are used for brushes. 1957 M. Banton West Afr. City iii. 43 Kola-nuts are grown in the south,..piassava along the southern coast. 1966 E. J. H. Corner Nat. Hist. Palms iii. 65 The thick brown coating of leaf-base fibres of the piassába or chiquichiqui palm Leopoldinia piassaba..are made into ropes. 1987 D. J. Mabberley Plant-bk. 52 Attalea... A. funifera..(Bahia piassava, piassalba, coquilla, Brazil)—lvs (bases) sources of piassava fibre. 2000 San Jose Mercury News (Calif.) (Nexis) 20 Aug. (Final ed.) 1 a They are helping locals grow plants that don't require clear-cutting the forest: organic cocoa..; and piassava palm, used to make brooms and thatched roofs. < as lemmas |
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