Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant, Sesbania Ægyptiaca, native throughout the tropics of the Old World. It is an elegant but softwooded and short-lived shrub, from 6 to 10 feet high. Also called
jyntee .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A leguminous shrub (
Sesbania aculeata ) which furnishes a fiber used for making ropes.
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Examples
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Sesban is generally propagated from seed, although it has been rooted from cuttings, and research has revealed that it can be established by tissue culture.
Chapter 10 1996
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Sesban has been observed occasionally to die back under cutting management fungal infection may be the cause.
Chapter 10 1996
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Sesban occurs naturally in semiarid to subhumid areas with
Chapter 10 1996
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Sesban is not a tree for timber or reforestation in the ordinary sense of forestry or silviculture.
Chapter 10 1996
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Sesban is found throughout the tropical and subtropical pans of Africa, Asia, and Australia It is not widely distributed in the Americas.
Chapter 10 1996
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Sesban is a fast-growing, short-lived tree that regenerates rapidly after pruning.
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Sesban has been grown with the fodder grass Brachiaria mutica in India, and to provide shade to young coffee plants in Kenya.
Chapter 10 1996
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Sesban is mostly used as fodder and for soil improvement, its wood is used only to a lesser extent (Evans and Macklin 1990).
Chapter 10 1996
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Sesban is generally propagated from seed, although it has been rooted from cuttings, and research has revealed that it can be established by tissue culture.
Chapter 46 1990
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Sesban is mostly used as fodder and for soil improvement. its wood is used only to a lesser extent (Evans and Macklin 1990).
Chapter 46 1990
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