agave sisalana

1. 1.

   Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope

   Synonymssisal

   Broaderagave

   Part ofgenus Agave

Questions about agave sisalana

What does agave sisalana mean?

agave sisalana means "Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope".

What is another word for agave sisalana?

Close synonyms include sisal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is agave sisalana a common word?

agave sisalana is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.