आस्ट्रेलिया के हथेलियों के मोनोटाइपिक जीनस

Noun:

मलाया में पायी जाने वाली एक प्रकार की खजूर,

nipa's Usage Examples:

Flora and Faunx.-Although the vegetation of the Nicobars has received much desultory attention from scientific observers, it has not been subjected to a systematic examination by the Indian Forest Department like that of the Andamans, and indeed the forests are quite inferior in economic value to those of the more northerly group; besides fruit trees - such as the coco-nut (Cocos nucifera), the betel-nut (Areca catechu), and the mellori (Pandanus leeram) - a thatching palm (Nipa fruticans) and various timber trees have some commercial value, but only one timber tree (Myristica irya)would be considered first-class in the Andamans.

Macabebe's principal industries are the cultivation of rice and sugar cane, the distilling of nipa alcohol, and the weaving of hemp and cotton fabrics.

nipa palm leaves.

More than one half of the dwellings in the city are mere shacks or nipa huts.

North of San Nicholas is Tondo, the most densely populated district; in the suburbs, outside the fire limits, the greater part of the inhabitants live in native houses of bamboo frames roofed and sided with nipa palm, and the thoroughfares consist of narrow streets and navigable streams. Paco, south-west of Intramuros, has some large cigar factories, and a large cemetery where the dead are buried in niches in two concentric circular walls.

In these marshes grows the nipa palm, from which a liquor is distilled - there are a number of small distilleries here.

It has important fisheries, and manufactures salt, pottery, roofing (made of nipa leaves), and nipa wine.

At one place we find drifted fruits of Nipa, at another Hightea and Anona.

Alcohol is distilled from nipa, coco-nuts, burs (Corypha umbraculifera), cauong (Caryota onusta), pugahan (Caryota urens) and Indian corn.

Nipa, made from the fibre of the agave or maguey plant and worn by women, is less common.

nipa's Meaning':

monotypic genus of palms of Australasia

Synonyms:

alcohol, inebriant, alcoholic beverage, nipa palm, intoxicant, Nipa fruticans, alcoholic drink,

Antonyms:

nonalcoholic,