WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
sunn (sun),USA pronunciation  n. 
  1. a tall East Indian shrub, Crotalaria juncea, of the legume family, having slender branches and yellow flowers, and an inner bark that yields a hemplike fiber used for making ropes, sacking, etc.
  2. Textilesthe fiber. Also called sunn′ hemp′, sun hemp, Bombay hemp, Madras hemp. 
  • Sanskrit śāṇa
  • Hindi san
  • 1580–90

'sunn' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Bombay hemp - Madras hemp - sun hemp

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