BASSINE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bassine" is a kind of...):

fiber; fibre (a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn)

Holonyms ("bassine" is a substance of...):

Borassus flabellifer; longar palm; lontar; palmyra; palmyra palm; toddy palm; wine palm (tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving)