Sunn

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A valuable East Indian fiber resembling hemp, obtained from the inner bark of Crotalaria juncea.
  • noun. The plant Crotalaria juncea, a stiff shrub from 5 to 8 or even 12 feet high, with slender wand-like rigid branches, yielding the sunn-hemp. Also sun-plant.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An East Indian leguminous plant (Crotalaria juncea) and its fiber, which is also called sunn hemp.
  • variant
    sun  sunn hemp