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Carpet-maker's fiber
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istle
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ixtle \Ix"tle\, Ixtli \Ix"tli\([i^]x"tl[-e]), n. 1. (Bot.) A Mexican name for a variety of Agave rigida , which furnishes a strong coarse fiber; also, the fiber itself, which is called also pita , and Tampico fiber .
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Istle (also spelt ixtle ) or tampico fiber is the general name for a hard plant fiber obtained from a number of Mexican plants, chiefly species of Agave and Yucca . Istle or ixtle is also used as the common name (or part of the common name) of the plants ...