A type of plant or fiber used in textiles, particularly from tropical South America.
From indigenous South American languages, borrowed into Portuguese and English. The exact etymology is uncertain but relates to fiber-bearing plants in the tropical Americas.
Caroa fiber was historically extracted from a South American plant and used to make textiles and rope. Like many plant-fiber terms (sisal, jute, manila hemp), it represents the global trade in plant materials that connected continents before industrialization.
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