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fiber plant

fiber plant noun: a plant species cultivated because its fibers have artisanal and/or industrial uses, e.g. as raw material for fabrics.

Noun

fiber plant (plural fiber plants)

  1. a plant species cultivated because its fibers have artisanal and/or industrial uses, e.g. as raw material for fabrics.
    • Before the advent of synthetics, textile manufacturing depended almost exclusively on wool, silk and fiber plants such as cotton and flax.

Forms of fiber plant

pluralfiber plants

Questions about fiber plant

What does fiber plant mean?
Fiber plant means a plant species cultivated because its fibers have artisanal and/or industrial uses, e.g. as raw material for fabrics.
What part of speech is fiber plant?
Fiber plant is a noun.
What is the plural of fiber plant?
The plural of fiber plant is fiber plants.

Words near fiber plant in the dictionary

  1. fiber clay
  2. fiber gun
  3. fiber guns
  4. fiber optic
  5. fiber optics
  6. fiber plant
  7. fiber plants
  8. fiber-clay
  9. fiber-optic
  10. fiber-optics
  11. fiberal

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