ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Henequen

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Henequen is a noun meaning A tropical American agave, Agave fourcroydes, whose thick, sword-shaped leaves yield a coarse reddish fibre used in making rope etc.

Meaning

A tropical American agave, Agave fourcroydes, whose thick, sword-shaped leaves yield a coarse reddish fibre used in making rope etc.

More Meanings

  1. The fibre from this plant (sometimes mistakenly called sisal, which is from Agave sisalana).

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Related dictionary entries include heniquin, jeniquen, ixtle, sisal, kenaf, tucum.

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