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rofia|ruːˈfiːə|
Also 8 rofeer, 9 roffia.
[Malagasy.]
A kind of palm: see raffia and raphia.
1729Drury Madagascar (1890) 172 Where the cattle are kept is a tree called rofeer. 1878Antananarivo Annual 113 Of the Palmae there is but one species found in Imerina, the Rofia. 1880J. Sibree Grt. African Isl. iv. 75 The rofia has a trunk of from thirty to fifty feet in height, and at the end divides into seven or eight immensely long leaves.
attrib.1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 170/1 The ròfia palm (Sagus Ruffia), from whose pinnate leaves a valuable fibre used for cloth is obtained. |