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pissaba

pissaba is the alternative spelling of piassava.

Meaning of piassava

Noun

piassava (countable and uncountable, plural piassavas)

  1. A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia piassaba), formerly used in making brooms and for other purposes.
    • Common brushes and brooms made of bristles, rice straw, piassava, and other animal or vegetable stuffs; also mounted with wood or iron, not colored, without polish or varnish:1893, United States Congressional serial set, page 150
  2. Either of these two trees.

Forms of pissaba

pluralpissabas

Questions about pissaba

What is pissaba the alternative spelling of?
Pissaba is the alternative spelling of piassava.

Words near pissaba in the dictionary

  1. piss-up
  2. piss-ups
  3. piss-warm
  4. piss-water
  5. piss-weak
  6. pissaba
  7. pissabed
  8. pissabeds
  9. pissah
  10. pissaladiere
  11. pissaladieres

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pissaba (page history and authors); piassava (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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