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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F., fr. Ar.

saisabān

seisebān

, a kind of tree, fr. Per.

sīsabān

seed of cinquefoil.]

(Bot.)

A leguminous shrub (

Sesbania aculeata

) which furnishes a fiber used for making ropes.

☞ The name is applied also to the similar plant,

Sesbania Aegyptiaca

, and other species of the same genus.

Noun.

A plant; a species of AEschynomene or Bastard sensitive plant.

sesban ‎(plural sesbans)

A leguminous shrub (Sesbania aculeata or others of the genus Sesbania) which furnishes a fiber used for making ropes.