Vegetable fiber from the leaves of Agave sisalana.
Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope.
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Examples for "agave fiber"
Examples for "agave fiber"
1As used in the text, pita means, apparently, some braid or other ornament of agave fibers.
1The fibre of the agave, known as sisal hemp, is used in the manufacture of rope, twine, mats, brushes, etc.
2The essential feature in the economic production of sisal hemp is machinery for separating the fibre from the pulp of the leaf.
3The sisal hemp, pineapple, yucca, and a number of fiber plants growing in the southern part of the United States are worthy of note.
1Or, he said, supermarkets might decide to hand out free sisal bags.
2He had also found wild sisal in the rocky places of the island.
3So he set about weaving a sail of his sisal fibre.
4A plastic gallon drum was buckling and melding to the sisal hall carpet.
5The small man picked up the twenty-pound sisal bag resting in the corner.
6Scientists say cooking gas from sisal waste is more efficient and cheaper than charcoal.
7The walls were mud, our beds assemblages of sisal bags.
8The gun thumped on the sisal matting next to him.
9I was in the lower shelf, and I put a sisal bag around me.
10The floor was packed dirt covered by a sisal rug.
11They had almost reached the fence of acacia and sisal thorns that surrounded the camp.
12Bags made with plant fibre like sisal can help the slum battle its plastics problem, he said.
13That could help farmers increase their yields and further accelerate the take-up of sisal in the country.
14He had special hawsers for the job, stout sisal ropes he kept hidden away for the next opportunity.
15In the night, Achor Achor and I asked the elders for sisal bags, and were each given one.
16Besides, the thorn bushes were patches of spiky aloe coming into red flower, and the spears of sisal.