bast

Meaning

Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.

Synonyms

phloem

best

good

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bass

better

inner bark

Bata

bast fiber

liber

fibre

cork

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɑːst/

Etymology

From Middle English bast, from Old English bæst (“bast, inner bark of trees from which ropes were made”), from Proto-Germanic *bastaz (“bast, rope”) (compare the Swedish bast, Dutch bast, German Bast), perhaps an alteration of Proto-Indo-European *bʰask-, *bʰasḱ- (“bundle”) (compare Middle Irish basc (“necklace”), Latin fascis (“bundle”), Albanian bashkë (“tied, linked”)).