BASSINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bassine mean? 

• BASSINE (noun)
  The noun BASSINE has 1 sense:

1. coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms

  Familiarity information: BASSINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASSINE (noun)

Sense 1

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)