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sesban
<botany> A leguminous shrub (Sesbania aculeata) which furnishes a fibre used for making ropes.

The name is applied also to the similar plant, Sesbania aegyptiaca, and other species of the same genus.

Origin: F, fr. Ar. Saisaban, seiseban, a kind of tree, fr. Per. Sisaban seed of cinquefoil.

Source: Websters Dictionary