sunn

[ suhn ]

noun

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. the fiber.

sunn

/ sʌn /

noun

1. a leguminous plant, Crotalaria juncea, of the East Indies, having yellow flowers
2. the hemplike fibre obtained from the inner bark of this plant, used in making rope, sacking, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of sunn¹

1580–90; < Hindi san < Sanskrit śāṇa

Word History and Origins

Origin of sunn¹

C18: from Hindi san, from Sanskrit śāná hempen

Example Sentences

"View" co-host Sunn Hostin then called the president's remarks "embarrassing" and explained that her Finnish friends are "having such a ball" with Trump's words.

From Fox News

While Haggerty was working on the Sunn Classic Pictures production When the North Wind Blows in Canada, where one scene required him to chase a tiger across a frozen lake in an attempt to rope it, a studio executive realised he was perfect for the role of the mountain man – having already shot The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams with another actor.

From The Guardian

“Everything looks, to an extremely high accuracy, exactly as it should,” IPP’s Thomas Sunn Pedersen says.

From Science Magazine

Set in the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, “Office” takes place largely in a Chinese company, the amusingly named Jones & Sunn, that jumps to the rhythms of the stock market, its vertiginous ups and downs, its soaring promises and crushing defeats.

From New York Times

Through his headphones, Werner can hear the Austrians upstairs still singing. . . . auf d'Wulda, auf d’Wulda, da scheint d’Sunn a so gulda .

From Literature