"Tucum" is a word in ENGLISH

The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.

A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually …

A swimming bird (Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting …

buli n buri palm: Corypha elata. The fibers from the unopened leaves are used in weaving hats, baskets, etc. It …

A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a …

A genus of elegant, glassy sponges, consisting of interwoven siliceous fibers, and growing in the form of a cornucopia; -- …

Covered with hairlike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose …

Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper …

A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are …

A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera; -- so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; -- …

A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. …

An order of sponges, having simple siliceous spicules and keratose fibers; -- called also Keratosilicoidea.

A plant of the genus Cannabis (C. sativa), the fibrous skin or bark of which is used for making cloth …

The fiber of the skin or rind of the plant, prepared for spinning. The name has also been extended to …

ibyuk n sugar palm, a k. o. palm resembling the coconut, the frond fibers and midribs of which are made …

The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an …

A Mexican name for a variety of Agave rigida, which furnishes a strong coarse fiber; also, the fiber itself, which …

A Mexican name for the Sisal hemp (Agave rigida, var. Sisalana); also, its fiber.

The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian Corchorus olitorius, and C. capsularis; also, the plant itself. The fiber is …