ceylon bowstring hemp

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   plant having thick fibrous leaves transversely banded in light and dark green

   SynonymsSansevieria zeylanica

   Broadersansevieria

Questions about ceylon bowstring hemp

What does ceylon bowstring hemp mean?

ceylon bowstring hemp means "plant having thick fibrous leaves transversely banded in light and dark green".

What is another word for ceylon bowstring hemp?

Close synonyms include Sansevieria zeylanica. 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 ceylon bowstring hemp a common word?

ceylon bowstring hemp 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.