jute

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
jute /dʒuːt/

▶noun

• 1 rough fibre made from the stems of a tropical plant, used for making rope or woven into sacking.

• 2 the plant cultivated for jute fibre, with edible young shoots. [Corchorus capsularis (China) and C. olitorius (India).]

– origin C18: from Bengali jhūṭo, from Prakrit juṣṭi.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Jute /dʒuːt/

▶noun a member of a Germanic people, possibly from Jutland, that settled in southern Britain in the 5th century.

– derivatives
Jutish adjective.

– origin OE Eotas, Iotas, influenced by med. L. Jutae, Juti.