Coir: alternatives and connections

Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury pa…

A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has be…

A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, m…

The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.

A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.

A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty…

The cocoanut.

The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed.

To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.

A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is s…

Having the form of a fiber or fibers; resembling a fiber.

A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla.

A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.

Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses.

The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt.

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

A plant of the genus Cannabis (C. sativa), the fibrous skin or bark of which is used for making cloth and cordage. The name is also ap…

A tobacco pipe, so arranged that the smoke passes through water, making a bubbling noise, whence its name. In India, the bulb containi…