coir

plural coirs · alternative caire · alternative cayar · alternative kiar

1. countableuncountableThe fibre obtained from the husk of a coconut, used chiefly in making rope, matting and as a peat substitute.

   Coconut fibers, after they have been separated out from a coconut husk, are called coir.

   2014, Theodore Gray, photography by Nick Mann, Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything, 2018 Paperback Edition, page 118

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   Then, how comparatively sweet was everything on board - no paint, no tar, no new rope, (vilest of smells to the qualmish!) no grease, or oil, or varnish; but instead of these, bamboo and rattan, and coir rope and palm thatch; pure vegetable fibres, which smell pleasantly if they smell at all, and recall quiet scenes in the green and shady forest.

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 162