nipa-palm

In the fo'c'stle of every blistered tramp that hooted of nipa-palm villages in search of cargo, the Chalice of Everlasting Fire was the subject of discussion.

Archive 2010-04-18 Bill Crider 2010

The large mat sails depend from yards of bamboo; the rudders are large oars, one over each counter; the decks are roofed with bamboo, ratan and the inevitable nipa-palm leaves.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

The roof is carefully thatched with the leaves of the nipa-palm and these are sewn into a thick mat with ratan.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

The famous eucalyptus abounds in the lowland regions; so also does the nipa-palm.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

It was nipa within as well as without, the floor and ceiling being of braided bamboo and the walls of the nipa-palm.

A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route Florence Kimball Russel

The capital was then but a small straggling Malay village, consisting of a few nipa-palm houses.

On the Equator Harry De Windt 1894

These are usually built in the same manner on piles of wood of ten to fifteen feet high, the walls and roof being made of "atap," or the leaf of the nipa-palm dried, and the flooring of "lanties" or split bamboo.

On the Equator Harry De Windt 1894

They are built and tiled with wood and bamboos, [137] and covered and roofed with nipa-palm leaves.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884

Continuing he speaks of the huts built by the Ilongotes of Luzón on tree stems, which are made from leaves of the nipa-palm and bamboo.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. Edward Gaylord Bourne 1884

The sago-palm has a creeping root-stem, like a nipa-palm, and Mr Hooker had told me that when it is nearly fifteen years old it sends up an immense terminal spike of flowers, after which it dies.

In the Eastern Seas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847