sunn
Americannoun
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a tall East Indian shrub, Crotalaria juncea, of the legume family, having slender branches and yellow flowers, and an inner bark that yields a hemplike fiber used for making ropes, sacking, etc.
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the fiber.
noun
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a leguminous plant, Crotalaria juncea, of the East Indies, having yellow flowers
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the hemplike fibre obtained from the inner bark of this plant, used in making rope, sacking, etc
Etymology
Origin of sunn
1580–90; < Hindi san < Sanskrit śāṇa
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What vapor which the flattring sunn Exhales to heaven as to create a starr, Yet throwst, a fading meteor, to the earth, Has falne like me?
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
He sayes that the Navarre grape is the best for our climate, and that the eastern sunn does most comfort the vine, by putting off the cold.
From The Natural History of Wiltshire by John Aubrey
The weary sunn has made a golden sett, And, by the bright track of his golden carr, Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
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