Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A valuable East Indian fiber resembling hemp, obtained from the inner bark of Crotalaria juncea.
- noun The plant Crotalaria juncea, a stiff shrub from 5 to 8 or even 12 feet high, with slender wand-like rigid branches, yielding the sunn-hemp. Also
sun-plant .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An East Indian leguminous plant (
Crotalaria juncea ) and its fiber, which is also calledsunn hemp .
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Examples
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Go just as the sunn is coming up because they are just now flying out of there roost.
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Go just as the sunn is coming up because they are just now flying out of there roost.
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Ai sendededed an bagg uv teh Gummeh Bunnehs tu mai sunn hoo izz awn deep loy mint inz teh Middlol Eest … *syngz* … “Inz teh Naybee” … izz tuu hawt tehre tu sendify himz a chonklit bunneh – himz wuud getz a boks wiffa puddlol uv meltifyded chonklit inz teh bawtum ifz ai didded taht – EEEEWWW!
Mai arms nawt reely dis long. Iz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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The sunn iz soe far ober teh yardarm heer dat it iz geddin dark!
Goldfishie?? come back! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Ai haz 2 stai owt uv teh sunn – hab noe pigmint in mai skin, soe Ai bern badlee.
ur cleerlee my biggest fan - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Foar drinkees, bellinis, mimmosaseseses, chonklit martoonies, oar tee and kawfee for tohse hoo R wair teh sunn iznawt yett obur teh yardarmz.
Goldfishie?? come back! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Welz, mai Cheezefrendz, toonanyte izz dayt nyte wif mai huzzbunneh – soe wih izz awf foar noms adn drinkees, adn wacheng teh sunn goe daoun obur teh ribbur.
Goldfishie?? come back! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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– Trufe tu telz, teh majjik uv Cheezeland … adn teh fakt taht mai sunn hazza restamarawnt … maiks itz awl eezie-peezie, adn lawtsa ufn!
Basement Cat regrets having evil - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Teh sunn iz 93 millyun miles frum teh Erf an lite taeks bowt 8.5 MINITTS 2 reech us, so wud taek less dan 3 minnits frum Mars.
itti bitti birdwatching - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Teh sunn iz tryin 2 shyne heer – nawt doin so well akchoolee!
seez dis eye? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
hernesheir commented on the word sunn
A plant fiber used in cordage and coarse fabric. A word for the Wordnik twine and fiber listers.
April 13, 2011