jute
/dʒuːt/noun
mass noun
1
- rough fibre made from the stems of a tropical Old World plant, used for making twine and rope or woven into sacking or matting黄麻纤维（一种用东半球热带植物茎干制成的粗纤维, 用于制作麻线和绳索, 或编成麻布袋或席垫）。
2
- the herbaceous plant which is cultivated for this fibre, with edible young shoots黄麻（一种可提取纤维的草本植物, 嫩枝可食）。
2.1
- Genus Corchorus, family Tiliaceae: several species, in particular C. capsularis of China and C. olitorius of India.黄麻属, 椴科：数种, 尤指中国的黄麻（拉丁名C. capsularis）和印度的长蒴黄麻（拉丁名C. olitorius）。
2.2
- used in names of other plants that yield fibre, e.g. Chinese jute用于其他产纤维的植物名称中, 如Chinese jute.
词源
mid 18th cent.: from Bengali jhūṭo, from Prakrit juṣṭi.