Sisal Synonyms

sīsəl
Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Agave sisalana
  2. sisal hemp

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Sisal Sentence Examples

  • An excellent quality of sisal is grown.

  • The chief exports are sisal fibre, rubber, hides and skins, wax, ivory, copra, coffee, ground-nuts and cotton.

  • Sisal hemp is grown, sponges are found in some quantities off the coast and there are four sponge-curing factories on the Caicos Islands.

  • The chief cultivated plants are maize, the sugar-cane, tobacco, cotton, coffee and especially henequen, the so-called "Sisal hemp," which is a strong, coarse fibre obtained from the leaves of the Agave rigida, var.

  • Sisal is grown.

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