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roffia

roffia is the obsolete form of raffia.

Meaning of raffia

Noun

raffia (countable and uncountable, plural raffias)

  1. A fibrous material used for tying plants, originating from the leaves of raffia palm trees (genus Raphia).
    • He was pressed against the canes and raffia of which this old house was built.1958, Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King

Questions about roffia

What is roffia the obsolete form of?
Roffia is the obsolete form of raffia.

Words near roffia in the dictionary

  1. Roești
  2. ROF
  3. rofecoxib
  4. Roff
  5. Roffey
  6. roffia
  7. roffle
  8. roffled
  9. roffles
  10. roffling
  11. rofia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roffia (page history and authors); raffia (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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