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fibrous - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Adjective

fibrous (comparative more fibrous, superlative most fibrous)

  • Of or pertaining to fibre.
    • ✤ The black kurrajong has a fibrous bark that Aboriginal artefact-makers used as a raw material to make string for their lines and carry-bags.1
  • Containing many fibres - referring mainly to food.
    • ✤ The prisoners sat in the sand among old rusted tins and bits of charcoal with their hands still manacled before them and the guards set out an old blue graniteware coffeepot and a stewpot of the sme material and they drank coffee and ate a dish containing some kind of pale and fibrous tuber, some kind of meat, some kind of fowl.2
  • Having the shape of fibres.

Etymology

From fibre + -ous.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈfaɪbɹəs/
  • Audio (US): 🔊
  • Hyphenation: fi‧brous

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Footnotes

  1. 2008, Philip A. Clarke, Aboriginal Plant Collectors: Botanists and Australian Aboriginal People in the Nineteenth Century, page 50: ↩

  2. 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 158: ↩

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