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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A valuable East Indian fiber resembling hemp, obtained from the inner bark of Crotalaria juncea.
  • noun 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) An East Indian leguminous plant (Crotalaria juncea) and its fiber, which is also called sunn hemp.

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  • A plant fiber used in cordage and coarse fabric. A word for the Wordnik twine and fiber listers.

    April 13, 2011