Raffia vs Straw - What's the difference?
raffia | straw |
A fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus .
(countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
(uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively.
(countable) A drinking straw.
a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
(figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
*XIX c. , recorded by Francis James Child,
*:‘For thy sword and thy bow I care not a straw ,
*:Nor all thine arrows to boot;
*:If I get a knop upon thy bare scop,
*:Thou canst as well shite as shoote.’
*1857 , Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers :
*:He also decided, which was more to his purpose, that Eleanor did not care a straw for him, and that very probably she did care a straw for his rival.
*1881 , :
*:To be deeply interested in the accidents of our existence, to enjoy keenly the mixed texture of human experience, rather leads a man to disregard precautions, and risk his neck against a straw .
Made of straw.
Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
As nouns the difference between raffia and straw
is that raffia is a fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus genus: Raphia while straw is a dried stalk of a cereal plant.As an adjective straw is
made of straw.As a proper noun Straw is
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(wikipedia raffia)Alternative forms
* rafia, raphia; rofia (obsolete)Noun
(raffias)Anagrams
*straw
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Noun
Derived terms
* * strawberryAdjective
(-)- straw hat