sisal hemp

sisal hemp
noun
a plant fiber used for making rope
• Syn: ↑sisal
• Hypernyms: ↑plant fiber, ↑plant fibre
• Substance Holonyms: ↑rope

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noun
see sisal 1a

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sis|al «SIHS uhl, SY suh, noun, or sisal hemp,
1. a strong fiber obtained from the leaves of a species of agave, used for making rope and twine.
2. the plant that it comes from; sisalana: »

Careful where you sit, bub; those blasted sisal plants are needle-sharp (New Yorker).

3. any related plant yielding a similar fiber, such as henequen.
╂[< Sisal, a port in Yucatán, from which it was exported]

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