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) which furnishes a fiber 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sesban”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• nesbas