bassine

English Thesaurus

1. coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	fiber, fibre,
definition	:	a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn (noun.substance)

substance meronym	:	borassus flabellifer, longar palm, lontar, palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)