plant fibre

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plant fibre - fiber derived from plants plant fiberbuntal - fine white Philippine fiber from stalks of unopened leaves of talipot palms; used in making hatsflax - fiber of the flax plant that is made into thread and woven into linen fabriccotton, cotton fiber, cotton wool - soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw statehemp - a plant fiberjute - a plant fiber used in making rope or sackskapok, silk cotton, vegetable silk - a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulationred silk cotton - a plant fiber from the red silk-cotton tree of eastern India; inferior to kapoknatural fiber, natural fibre - fiber derived from plants or animalsstraw - plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodderplant product - a product made from plant materialraffia, raphia - leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree; used to make baskets and mats etc.sisal, sisal hemp - a plant fiber used for making rope