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  jute

  noun

  a strong, coarse fiber used for making burlap, gunny, cordage, etc., obtained from two East Indian plants, Corchorus capsularis and C. olitorius, of the linden family.
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  Jute

  noun

  a member of a continental Germanic tribe, probably from Jutland, that invaded Britain in the 5th century a.d. and settled in Kent.

jute

¹ American  

[joot] / dʒut /

noun

1. a strong, coarse fiber used for making burlap, gunny, cordage, etc., obtained from two East Indian plants, Corchorus capsularis and C. olitorius, of the linden family.

2. either of these plants.

3. any plant of the same genus.

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Jute ² American  

[joot] / dʒut /

noun

1. a member of a continental Germanic tribe, probably from Jutland, that invaded Britain in the 5th century a.d. and settled in Kent.

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jute ¹ British  

/ dʒuːt /

noun

1. either of two Old World tropical yellow-flowered herbaceous plants, Corchorus capsularis or C. olitorius, cultivated for their strong fibre: family Tiliaceae

2. this fibre, used in making sacks, rope, etc

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Jute ² British  

/ dʒuːt /

noun

1. a member of one of various Germanic tribes, some of whom invaded England in the 6th century _ad , settling in Kent

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Other Word Forms

• Jutish
  adjective
• jutelike
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of jute

First recorded in 1740–50, jute is from the Bengali word jhuṭo

Explanation

Jute is a very long fiber that comes from a plant and is used to make rugs, ropes, and other things. Jute twine feels coarse and rough, and is very strong. Jute is useful because of its length and cheapness — it provides an easy way to make an inexpensive sack or floor mat. If you've ever planted a small tree, you've probably uncovered its roots from their jute wrapping first, and if you've bought a five-pound bag of rice or sugar, it most likely came in a rough jute bag. Jute comes from the Bengali word jhuto, from the Sanskrit root juta-s, "twisted hair."

Example Sentences

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India's main summer crops include rice, pulses, coarse cereals, oilseeds, cotton, sugarcane and jute.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Ms. Rizer begins in a peasant shift of woven jute and ends, after seven layers and 154 pounds of increasing Tolstoyan grandeur, cocooned in a wintry mantle of taupe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025

“Here the only products we work with are silk, wool, jute, cotton, linen,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2023

In addition to the jute garments Vargas wove to clothe Argote in for the performance, the show also includes a more straightforward painting, “Pain Body,” made in what Argote calls “ancestral” oil paint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

Mama was slung over his shoulder like the jute sacks of rice his factory workers bought in bulk at the Seme Border.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

On a recent afternoon, workers lined up outside one of the biggest jute factories in Asia, the Hukumchand Jute Mill in southern West Bengal.

From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2022

Jute bales — compressed rock-hard to save space on shipment from India — weigh 400 pounds.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022

Angle, Saxon, and Jute tribes from what is today northwestern Germany and southern Denmark “came over into the island, and they began to increase so much, that they became terrible to the natives.”

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 21, 2022

Jute mesh, coir logs, and forty-two thousand shrubs help to keep the horticultural soil in place—“the belt and suspenders” of the operation, according to Ellen Cavanagh, the director of planning for the trust.

From The New Yorker ● May 16, 2016

Jute farms and dairy farms have something in common.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

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