sisal

English Thesaurus

1. Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	agave, american aloe, century plant,
definition	:	tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus agave,
definition	:	type genus of the Agavaceae; in some classifications considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae (noun.plant)

2. a plant fiber used for making rope (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	plant fiber, plant fibre,
definition	:	fiber derived from plants (noun.substance)

substance meronym	:	rope,
definition	:	a strong line (noun.artifact)