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2. Noun. the fibre from this plant (sometimes mistakenly called sisal) ¹

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Definition of Henequen

1. a fiber used to make ropes [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Henequen

Literary usage of Henequen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Cuba by Willis Fletcher Johnson (1920)
"The name henequen is of Aztec origin, and the plant itself, a variety of the ... No satisfactory substitute has been found for henequen in the manufacturing ..."

2. Coffee and India-rubber Culture in Mexico: Preceeded by Geographical and by Matías Romero (1898)
"All the agave yields a first-class fibre as raw material, either for paper or cordage—some of it being rather coarse, like the Yucatan henequen, and some of ..."

3. The Ancient Cities of the New World: Being Voyages and Explorations in by Désiré Charnay (1887)
"Early Account of Yucatan—First Explorers : F. Hernandez de Cordova, Juan de Grijalva—Cortez—Railroad—henequen Estate—Merida—Historical Jottings —Destruction ..."

4. Yucatan by Bruce Conord, June Conord (2005)
"henequen henequen, or sisal, is the rope fiber produced from one of the more than 300 varieties of the agave plant, which thrive in warm arid and semiarid ..."

5. Mexico of the Twentieth Century by Percy Falcke Martin (1908)
"... machinery and implements—San Luis Potosi Exhibition— Government encouragement — Eice — Cacao — Chicle — Vanilla — Fibrous plants—henequen—New tax ..."

6. Travels in Mexico and Life Among the Mexicans by Frederick Albion Ober (1887)
"For some time after the cultivation of hemp — henequen — was seriously undertaken by the planters of Yucatan (notwithstanding the invention of the ..."

7. Barbarous Mexico: An Indictment of a Cruel and Corrupt System by John Kenneth Turner (1910)
"But the panic of 1907 wiped out the world's henequen market for a time. ... I not only discussed every phase of henequen production with the kings ..."

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