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Ixtli   Listen
noun
Ixtli, Ixtle  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A Mexican name for a variety of Agave rigida, which furnishes a strong coarse fiber; also, the fiber itself, which is called also pita, and Tampico fiber. (Written also istle)





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"Ixtli" Quotes from Famous Books



... an article was discovered for the stiffening of corsets, which has revolutionized the corset industry of the world. This article is manufactured from the natural fibers of the Mexican Ixtle plant, and is known as Coraline. It consists of straight, stiff fibers like bristles bound together into a cord by being wound with two strands of thread passing in opposite directions. This produces an elastic fiber intermediate in stiffness between twine and whalebone. It cannot break, ...
— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols


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