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CANTALA

Dictionary entry overview: What does cantala mean?

• CANTALA (noun)
The noun CANTALA has 2 senses:

1. hard fiber used in making coarse twine; from Philippine agave plants
2. Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine

Familiarity information: CANTALA used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CANTALA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Hard fiber used in making coarse twine; from Philippine agave plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cantala; Cebu maguey; manila maguey

Hypernyms ("cantala" is a kind of...):

fiber; fibre (a slender and greatly elongated solid substance)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Agave cantala; cantala; maguey

Hypernyms ("cantala" is a kind of...):

agave; American aloe; century plant (tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber)

Holonyms ("cantala" is a member of...):

genus Agave (type genus of the Agavaceae; in some classifications considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae)

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