Lexicographical Neighbors of Piassaba
| pianoless pianolike pianophile pianophiles pianos pians piapec piarachnoid piarist piarists | pias piasaba piasabas piasava piasavas piaster piasters piastre piastres piation | piazza piazzalike piazzas piazze piazzian |
Literary usage of Piassaba
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Technologist (1862)
"There is besides a second kind of piassaba, which reaches us from Para, and is
much more valuable, now selling at the rate of 37/. to ..."
2. A Voyage Up the River Amazon: Including a Residence at Pará by William Henry Edwards (1847)
"Rio Negro at Barra—The town—Old fort—Sr. Henriquez and family—Manner of
living—Venezuelans—piassaba rope—Grass hammocks—Feather work—Descent of the ..."
3. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1855)
"Note on piassaba. To the Editor of the Kew Garden Miscellany. » Dear Sir,—You
must well remember the surprise which was caused among botanists by the very ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"It is one of the species yielding piassaba fibre, which is employed in the manufacture
... The piassaba fibre exported from Paru is partly obtained from it. ..."
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