sisal
IPA: sˈɪzʌɫ
noun
- A Central American plant, Agave sisalana, cultivated for its sword-shaped leaves that yield fibers used for rope.
- The fibre of the plant.
- (rare) A sisal mat.
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Examples of "sisal" in Sentences
- Largest sisal twine ball built by a community.
- It is from these threads that a sisal bag is made.
- If it works on cotton it should work on sisal, too.
- For a time a new fiber called sisal seemed promising.
- Tanzania is the world's fourth largest sisal producer.
- Tanzania is the world's second largest sisal producer.
- Huaraches are hand fashioned leather sandals with sisal thongs.
- This is now the world's largest and heaviest ball of sisal twine.
- It is classified as a hard fibre, along with coir, henequin and sisal.
- It specializes mainly to production of sisal fiber and farming of pineapples.