bassine

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Noun

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bassine - coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and broomsBorassus 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 weavingfiber, fibre - a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn