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Sisal

noun
1.
A plant fiber used for making rope.  Synonym: sisal hemp.
2.
Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope.  Synonym: Agave sisalana.



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"Sisal" Quotes from Famous Books



... coffee, sisal, corn, cotton, manioc (tapioca), tobacco, vegetables, plantains; livestock; forest ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... crude oil 90%, diamonds, refined petroleum products, gas, coffee, sisal, fish and ...
— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government
... healthy trees two hundred feet in height, thriving for centuries, but it reaches out and blights the attempts of man, whether sisal, rubber, cocoa, or coffee. So far the ebb-tide has left but two successful crops to those of us whose kismet has led us hither—crime and science. The concentration of negroes, coolies, Chinese and Portuguese on the coast furnishes an unfailing supply of convicts to ...
— Edge of the Jungle • William Beebe


Words linked to "Sisal" :   genus Agave, plant fibre, century plant, agave, American aloe, plant fiber, rope


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