Crossword-Solution: TOQUILLA
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| GAUZE headdress | 1 answer |
| CARLUDOVICA palmata leaves, product of | 3 answers |
| jipijapa | 3 answers |
| Fibre | 36 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with TOQUILLA (3)
The other chief articles of exportation are hides, cotton, "Panama hats," manufactured at Indian villages on the coast, cinchona bark, caucho, tobacco, orchilla weed, sarsaparilla, and tamarinds.[8] The hats are usually made of the "Toquilla" (_Carludovica palmata_), an arborescent plant about five feet high, resembling the palm.
Besides rubber, the forests produce a great variety of cabinet and construction woods, ivory-nuts (from the "tagua" palm, _Phytelephas macrocarpa_), "toquilla" fibre (_Carludovica palmata_) for the manufacture of so-called Panama hats, cabbage palms, several species of cinchona, vanilla and dyewoods.
The manufacture of so-called Panama hats from the fibre of the toquilla palm (commonly called _jipijapa_, after a town in Manabí famous for this industry) is a long-established domestic industry among the natives of this and other coast provinces, the humidity of the climate greatly facilitating the work of plaiting the delicate straws, which would be broken in a dry atmosphere.