Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A tropical Asian plant (Crotalaria juncea) having clusters of yellow flowers.
- n. A tough fiber obtained from the stems of this plant, used for cordage.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A valuable East Indian fiber resembling hemp, obtained from the inner bark of Crotalaria juncea. It is made chiefly into ropes and cables, in India also into cordage, nets, sacking, etc. Finely dressed it can be made into a very durable canvas. A similar fiber, said to be equal to the best St. Petersburg hemp, is the Jubbulpore hemp, derived from a variety of the same plant sometimes distingnished as a species, C. tenuifolia. Also called
sunn-hemp . Native names are taag and janapum. - n. The plant Crotalaria juncea, a stiff shrub from 5 to 8 or even 12 feet high, with slender wand-like rigid branches, yielding the sunn-hemp. Also sun-plant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) An East Indian leguminous plant (Crotalaria juncea) and its fiber, which is also called
sunn hemp .
Etymologies
- Hindi san, from Sanskrit śāṇa-, hempen, from śaṇaḥ, hemp. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Go just as the sunn is coming up because they are just now flying out of there roost.”
“Welz, mai Cheezefrendz, toonanyte izz dayt nyte wif mai huzzbunneh – soe wih izz awf foar noms adn drinkees, adn wacheng teh sunn goe daoun obur teh ribbur.”
Goldfishie?? come back! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Ai sendededed an bagg uv teh Gummeh Bunnehs tu mai sunn hoo izz awn deep loy mint inz teh Middlol Eest … *syngz* … “Inz teh Naybee” … izz tuu hawt tehre tu sendify himz a chonklit bunneh – himz wuud getz a boks wiffa puddlol uv meltifyded chonklit inz teh bawtum ifz ai didded taht – EEEEWWW!”
Mai arms nawt reely dis long. Iz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“The sunn iz soe far ober teh yardarm heer dat it iz geddin dark!”
Goldfishie?? come back! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Foar drinkees, bellinis, mimmosaseseses, chonklit martoonies, oar tee and kawfee for tohse hoo R wair teh sunn iznawt yett obur teh yardarmz.”
Goldfishie?? come back! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“– Trufe tu telz, teh majjik uv Cheezeland … adn teh fakt taht mai sunn hazza restamarawnt … maiks itz awl eezie-peezie, adn lawtsa ufn!”
Basement Cat regrets having evil - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Ai haz 2 stai owt uv teh sunn – hab noe pigmint in mai skin, soe Ai bern badlee.”
ur cleerlee my biggest fan - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Teh sunn iz 93 millyun miles frum teh Erf an lite taeks bowt 8.5 MINITTS 2 reech us, so wud taek less dan 3 minnits frum Mars.”
itti bitti birdwatching - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Teh sunn iz tryin 2 shyne heer – nawt doin so well akchoolee!”
seez dis eye? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“October 18, 2009 at 8:15 am nede tu lyne awp sumtink ellse, pleis. ai has eh visut tu Dr. Tinycat tumorruw furr hym tu luk weer teh sunn du nawt shyn. ai has eggsitment plannd tudae, aifinkso!”
i think i can i think i can - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Lists
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Twine
sisal, cotton, jute, hemp, coir, henequin, baler, binder, polypropylene, twine, gimp, marline and 10 more...
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beautiful words
flesher, yakka, simnel, larrikin, petrific, parlando, sol-fa, acharnement, sunn, punctum, inflatus, exinanition and 14 more...
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hernesheir A plant fiber used in cordage and coarse fabric. A word for the Wordnik twine and fiber listers. Apr 13, 2011