Sentence example with the word 'raphia'

raphia

Definition n. leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree

Last update: June 12, 2015


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The chief trade is in, and the principal exports are, palm oil and kernels, rubber, cotton, maize, groundnuts (Arachis), shea-butter from the Bassia parkii (Sapotaceae), fibres of the Raphia vinifera, and the Sansevieria guineensis, indigo, and kola nuts, ebony and other valuable wood.   [Please select]

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The opposing hosts met at Ropeh, the Raphia of the Greeks, on the very borders of the desert.   [Please select]

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--In 537, at Raphia, the Egyptian army amounted to 70,000 foot, 5,000 cavalry, and 73 elephants.   [Please select]

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The mole is fixed fore and aft, with a lashing of raphia, to a light horizontal cross-bar resting on two forks.   [Please select]

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With a ligament of raphia, the Mole is fixed by the hind feet to a twig planted vertically in the soil.   [Please select]

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The hammock of raphia, almost equivalent to the natural network of couch-grass turf, scarcely disturbs the process of inhumation.   [Please select]

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