sisal hemp

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   a plant fiber used for making rope

   Synonymssisal

   Broaderplant fiber

Questions about sisal hemp

What does sisal hemp mean?

sisal hemp means "a plant fiber used for making rope".

What is another word for sisal hemp?

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 sisal hemp a common word?

sisal 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.