piassava

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Portuguese piaçaba.

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.
  2. Either of these two trees.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for piassava in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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