Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| aesculin | a glucoside found in horse-chestnut bark. |
| amole | a plant root used as a substitute for soap. |
| angostura | a bitter aromatic bark. |
| arghan | PITA fibre, or the plant yielding it. |
| asarum | the dried root of the wild ginger. [L. asarum, asarabacca]. |
| azedarach | the stringent bark of the chinaberry, used as an emetic and cathartic. |
| briarroot brierroot | the root of the briar. |
| calisaya | a variety of Peruvian bark, aka cinchona bark. |
| calumba | the dried root of a tree native to E. Africa and Madagascar, used as a bitter tonic. [Perhaps from Colombo in Sri Lanka, erroneously regarded as the source]. |
| cantala | a coarse fibre used in making strong thread or twine. |
| cascara | the bark of the California buckthorn, used as a mild cathartic or laxative. |
| chayroot | the root of the CHAY, an Indian plant of the madder family. |
| codilla | the coarse tow of flax and hemp. |
| coir kyar | a material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the coconut. |
| cork | the outer bark of the cork tree, a species of oak. |
| corkiness | the state of being CORKY. |
| corklike | like CORK. |
| corky | of or resembling cork > CORKIER, CORKIEST. |
| costus | an aromatic root of the ginger family > COSTUSES. |
| cullay quillaia quillaja quillai | the bark of a rosaceous tree native to Chile, commonly used by the Chilians instead of soap. |
| fiber fiber | a threadlike filament of animal, vegetable or mineral origin. |
| fiberlike fibrelike | like fibre. |
| filasse | vegetable fibre prepared for manufacture. |
| flittern | bark obtained from young oak trees. |
| galanga galangal galengale galingale | the aromatic rootstock of certain E Indian plants of the ginger family. |
| gingerroot | the root of the ginger plant. |
| hards | the coarse or refuse flax or hemp. Also HURDS. |
| hempen | made of hemp; as, a hempen cord. |
| hemplike | like hemp. |
| hempy | like hemp; (noun) a tomboy. |
| hurds | the coarse part of flax or hemp. N.B. no HURD*. Also HARDS. |
| ipecac ipecacuanha | the dried root of various S. American plants, used as a purgative, expectorant and emetic. [Portugese from Tupi]. |
| istle ixtle | a fibre obtained from the agave. |
| jalap jalop | the purgative root of a Mexican plant. |
| jalapic | pertaining to JALAP, the purgative root of a Mexican plant. |
| jute | a fibre obtained from the phloem of two plants of the linden family, used for making ropes. |
| jutelike | like JUTE. |
| kapok | a very light, waterproof, oily fibre covering the seeds of a species of silk-cotton tree, used for stuffing pillows etc. [Malay kapuk]. |
| kyar | see COIR. |
| lint | cotton fibre; flax. |
| linter | short fibers clinging to cotton seeds after the first ginning. |
| linty | like lint > LINTIER, LINTIEST. |
| manila | a kind of fibre used for making rope. [From Manila, capital of the Philippines]. |
| mishmee mishmi | the bitter root of an Assamese gold-thread plant, with tonic properties. |
| moorva murva | bowstring hemp. |
| orrisroot | the root of ORRIS, used in perfumery. |
| pachak putchock putchuk | costus-root. |
| phelloid | cork-like. |
| pita | the fibre of various species of bromelia. [Quechua pita, fine thread]. |
| pulu | a silky fibre from the Hawaiian tree-fern. |
| putchock | see PACHAK. |
| putchuk | see PACHAK. |
| quercetic | of or like QUERCETIN. |
| quercetin quercitin | a yellow crystalline compound obtained from the inner bark of the QUERCITRON oak. |
| quercitron | the yellow inner bark of the various oak trees. |
| quillai | see CULLAY. |
| quillaia | see CULLAY. |
| quillaja | see CULLAY. |
| salep | dried orchid tubers; a food or drug prepared from them. |
| salicin salicine | a bitter crystalline glucoside obtained from willow-bark, etc and used medicinally as an analgesic, etc. |
| sanguinaria | the dried rhizome of the bloodroot Sanguinaria used as an emetic. |
| sassy sassywood | the bark of a West African leguminous tree, used by the natives as an ordeal poison, and also medicinally; (adj.) impertinent > SASSIER, SASSIEST. |
| seneca senega | the dried root of a N. American milkwort, used medicinally. |
| sisal | a fibre used for making rope. |
| suber | the bark of the cork tree. [L. suber, cork]. |
| subereous | of cork. |
| suberin | a compound found in cork. |
| suberise suberize | to deposit SUBERIN, thus forming cork. |
| suberose suberous | pertaining to cork. |
| tanbark | a tree bark used as a source of tannin. |
| tow | prepared fibres of flax, hemp etc. |
| towy | pertaining to TOW > TOWIER, TOWIEST. |
| turbeth turbith turpeth | the root of Ipomea turpethum, a plant of Ceylon, used as a purgative. |
| watap watape wattape | a fibre or thread made by some N. American Indian peoples from the split roots of conifers, esp. white spruce. [Cree watapiy]. |
| wattlebark | the bark of various acacias, used for tanning. |