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Coarse fiber of a coconut
Answer for the clue "Coarse fiber of a coconut ", 4 letters:
coir
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Word definitions for coir in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Apparently both the tomatoes in the peat and those in the coir had been grown under exactly the same conditions. ▪ In just the same way, you simply can't use coir in exactly the same way as you would use peat. ▪ Marketed as blocks ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"prepared coconut fiber," 1580s, from Malayalam kayar "cord," from kayaru "to be twisted."
Usage examples of coir.
She loves the smell of everything- floor polish, fireplace, coir matting.
Like the Arab ships of yore, it was sewn togethernot by coir, as in the ancient seagoing vessels, but by thousands upon thousands of miles of rope made from monofilament fiber.
Vicky wrapped her naked lower body in a woollen sham ma and helped her settle comfortably on one of the thin coir mattresses spread on the floor of the car.
For the maintenance of the wagons there were two drums of tar to be mixed with animal fat to grease the wheel hubs, heavy coils of rawhide trek ropes, ri ems and straps, yokes and yoke-pins, lynch-pins for the wheel hubs, rolls of canvas and coir matting to repair the tents.
She loves the smell of everything floor polish, fireplace, coir matting.
Like the Arab ships of yore, it was sewn togethernot by coir, as in the ancient seagoing vessels, but by thousands upon thousands of miles of rope made from monofilament fiber.
I remember all at once the nurses' rooms, the mattings of coir, a piece of text on the limewashed wall: My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me.
I had combed out the plaits and stitches from my hair and it stood up like coir, and I had no hat, so put a handkerchief of Charles's about my head.
The gangplank creaked and the ship rubbed her bumpers of coir matting against the quay as Cashel's weight shifted it.