sesban

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French sesban, from Arabic سَيْسَبَان (saysabān).

Noun

sesban (plural sesbans)

1. A leguminous shrub (Sesbania aculeata or others of the genus Sesbania), whose fiber can be used for making ropes.
   • 1919, Veterinary Medicine, volume 14, page 246:

     The sesban belongs to the pulse family which contains a number of poisonous plants like the lupine, rattle-box loco weed, etc.

References

• “sesban”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• nesbas