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- noun A
Brazilian palm , Raphia taedigera, whose long stalks are used in constructing buildings
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes
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Examples
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How diverse, yet equally graceful, are the aspiring branches of the jagua and the drooping foliage of the cocoa, the shuttlecock-shaped crowns of the ubussú and the plumes of the jupati, forty feet in length.
The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853
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Now appears the miriti, or mauritia -- one of the most beautiful of its tribe, with pendent clusters of glossy fruit, and enormous spreading fan-like leaves cut into ribbons; the jupati, with plume-like leaves forty feet and upwards in length, graceful in the extreme, starting almost from the ground.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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