Usually means: Fibers from palms for crafts.
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  1. raffia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. raffia: Merriam-Webster
  3. raffia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. raffia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. raffia: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Raffia, raffia: Vocabulary.com
  7. Raffia, raffia: Wordnik
  8. raffia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. raffia: Wiktionary
  10. raffia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. raffia (raphia): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. raffia: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Raffia, raffia: Dictionary.com
  14. raffia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Raffia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Raffia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. raffia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Raffia: Rhymezone
  19. Raffia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. raffia: FreeDictionary.org
  21. raffia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. raffia: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. raffia: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. raffia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See raffias as well.)

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noun:  A fibrous material used for tying plants, originating from the leaves of raffia palm trees (genus Raphia).

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