Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Sesban

Sesban , noun

[French, from Arabic saisabān, seisebān, a kind of tree, from Per. sīsabān seed of cinquefoil.]

(Botany) A leguminous shrub (Sesbania aculeata) which furnishes a fiber used for making ropes.

The name is applied also to the similar plant, Sesbania Aegyptiaca, and other species of the same genus.