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a plant fiber used for making rope

see sisal 1a

sis|al «SIHS uhl, SY suh, noun, or sisal hemp,

1. a strong fiber obtained from the leaves of a species of agave, used for making rope and twine.

2. the plant that it comes from; sisalana: »

Careful where you sit, bub; those blasted sisal plants are needle-sharp (New Yorker).

3. any related plant yielding a similar fiber, such as henequen.

╂[< Sisal, a port in Yucatán, from which it was exported]