ixtle
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
American Spanish, from Nahuatl ixtli.
Noun
ixtle (countable and uncountable, plural ixtles)
- A variety of Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., furnishing a strong coarse fiber.
- The fiber itself; pita, or Tampico fiber.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ixtle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)