The Nipa or Susa Palm (Nipa fruticans) is the sacred tree of Borneo.
The Nipa, or Susa (Nipa fruticans), is the sacred tree of Borneo, and is the most valuable of all growing things to the Dyaks of that country.
The leaves of a species of palm (Nipa fruticans), used as thatch to cover houses.
On that day it rained heavily, and as those in the houses were fearful lest the enemy would set fire to their dwellings, they had removed the nipa [20] with which they were covered.
On several occasions I have heard them in tiny nipa shacks in small Philippine villages, and in a Moro shack in Kudat, built on poles above the water, I heard the sound of what seemed a very good phonograph of some sort.
Fine concrete dormitories are supplied, but many prefer to build their own native houses of nipa palm and bamboo.
Upon the main timbers of the frame was built a sort of lattice of split bamboo, upon which in turn was sewed, shinglewise, close layers of nipa palm that are quite impervious to rain, are fairly durable, and are very inflammable.
We do not smoke within our nipa houses; it is too dangerous.
Tell our friend from across the purple ocean how we use the bamboo and the nipa plants, for other purposes besides building," remarked little Fil.
Yes, that is a roof, or thatch, made out of nipa palm leaves tied on to bamboo sticks," Fil explained.
Our small nipa hut, high in the air, sways a little, but rides out the storm.
I should imagine that the bamboo is the skeleton or the framework, and that the nipa is the skin of the Philippine structure," I remarked.
Just think of practically growing chocolate bonbons on a tree, beneath the window of your nipa huts, in these wonderful Philippine Islands," I added, and every one smiled.
Moro continued: "From the sap of the nipa palm, we distill alcohol.
There are a great many nipa and other palms, although more than twenty thousand palm-trees have been destroyed.
Although many of the buildings and houses are of stone, still many are made of wood, or of bamboo thatched with leaves of the nipa palm.
This section was the end section of the timber which was partly covered with nipa thatch, with which the sides of the house were covered.
The building is constructed of bamboo with a nipa thatch roof.
The native dwellings are constructed of bamboo, thatched with the leaves of the nipa palm.
The long leaves are taken from the nipa palm, which grows abundantly in the island, and serves a great many useful purposes.
Over the after part was an awning, made of the big leaves of the nipa palm; and under it were two men and two women, bound up the river.
Falling in with a loquacious native, who supplied us with a store of mangoes, we rode on, and reached Tag-nipa or El Salvador late in the afternoon.
He lived in a nipa balay That served as a stable and sty.
Nipa and rattan The rattan (growing in the mountain) is used to lash on the nipa (growing in the swamp) to the house framework.
Rider of bambu, over the ridge to keep the nipa from being blown away.
Nipa thatching In roofing the work begins at the lower part and ends at the ridge.
Dase I lay down upon the buri, under the nipa I slept.
Her hat was of woven nipa palm-leaves, intricately fashioned together.
He was thrusting aside the screen ofnipa leaves to peer toward the vessel.
He found his associate pacing agitatedly in the shade of a screen of nipa palms between whose broad leaves he could watch the trim white hull and spotless decks of the gun-boat.
Koyala led him directly to the clearing and reclined with a sigh of utter weariness in the shade of a stunted nipa palm.
The tangle of cane, creeper growth, and nipa palm that had grown in the park of shapely tamarinds since de Jonge's death had been cut away.
Many of the inhabitants occupy themselves in the neighbouring nipa swamps, either preparing the nipa leaves for use in house construction, or distilling "nipa-wine" from the juice secured by tapping the blossom stalks.
It has a creeping root-stem like the Nipa palm, and when about ten or fifteen years of age sends up an immense terminal spike of flowers, after which the tree dies.
I may mention among the most useful the Nipa fruticans and the Sugar Palm (Areca saccharifera).
But the Thirty-fourth was temporarily stationed in big nipa barracks at Malate.
He, too, was approached by Tomba, at thenipa barracks.
Sigue directio, Malate, cuartel nipa," ordered Hal, thus instructing the driver to go straight ahead to Malate and to take them to the nipa barracks.
He wandered slowly through the native quarter, cutting down clean cross streets lined with neat nipa huts inclosed behind latticed bamboo fences, enjoying the novelty of a community different from any he had known.
At the end of a roaring flight down a long straightaway they rounded a sharp curve into a short stretch terminating in a nipa village which seemed to leap toward the rushing car.
The journey up river from the mouth is flat and uninteresting, and little is to be seen but nipa and other palms on either side, and although Kuching is but seven miles from Santubong as the crow flies, it is quite twenty by river.
The left-hand bank is a flat, swampy plain of impenetrable jungle, having its river banks lined with mangroves and nipa palms.
The average Manila resident does not pay more than fifty dollars in our money for his nipa house.
This Gives a Good Idea of the Native Nipa Huts Along the Banks of the Canal, and a Bamboo Foot-bridge] [Illustration: PLATE XXII A Filipino Peasant Girl on the Way to Market.
The windows are of translucent shell, while the door is of nipaor wood.
The framework is of bamboo, bound together by rattan; the roof timbers are of bamboo, while the sides of the house and the thatch are made from the nipa tree.
This Style of House, With Bamboo Frame and Thatched Sides and Roof of Nipa Grass, Costs About Fifty Mex.
The Buffalo is also Used for Ploughing and Other Farm Work] [Illustration: PLATE XXIV The Nipa Hut of the Filipino.
The misconduct of Tumay and his men gave me a reason for moving the Moros from the west coast of Palawan, where they were living in mangrove or nipa swamps.
Tumay and his people were outlaws and were living in a nipa swamp where it would have been almost impossible to attack them successfully.
The natives generally gather in districts or settlements where they sow their rice, and possess their palm trees, nipa and banana groves, and other trees, and implements for their fishing and sailing.
Their drink is a wine made from the tops of cocoa and nipa palm, of which there is a great abundance.
The roofs of the houses were covered with nipa leaves, which resemble our mace-reed, [279] and which form a sufficient defense against the rains.
A second time and a third the lantern glowed, and each time a cannon ball crashed through a nipa hut beside the little company, or threw a shower of dust about the place.
Between Thaine and the bridge was a stretch of dusty road, flanked on one side by nipa huts.
Also Nipa fruticans, And a species of Calamus; and another of Urtica.
We found the bamboo growing in abundance on the hills, and in a few places the Nipa fruticans.
Morinda citrifolia, } Nipa fruticans--the leaves are used universally for thatching.
It is replaced by the Areca catechu; by Nipa fruticans, Cycas circinalis, and a few others.
Sarmiento was a cabeza de barangay [90] of Santa Ana where he owned a small nipa house which he rented out, performing at the same time the office of cook and house boy to the tenant.
Perez Herrero; they discovered them barefooted and wellnigh mad with terror, dressed in native clothes and hidden in a nipa shack.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nipa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
