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fibro

fibro noun: fibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and cement pressed into sheets.

Noun

fibro (uncountable)

  1. (Australia) Fibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and cement pressed into sheets.
    • Her house was a little grey fibro job. Nondescript really, with cracked and broken fibro louvres, sad and sorry walls.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 322
    • There are a few faded colourless fibro buildings, jagged black holes punched here and there in the panels.2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 19
  2. (informal) Fibromyalgia.
    • When I got fibro, the Internet was not in common use, so I didn't have the resources that a newly diagnosed person would have now.2011, Linda Kay Mullinax, It's Okay to Hurt: My Life with Fibromyalgia, page 43

fibro meaning in Tamil

fibro in Tamil

இழைமம், இழையம், இழை, நார், நார்க்குருத்தெலும்பு, இழைய

Origin of fibro

Abbreviations.

Questions about fibro

What does fibro mean?
Fibro means fibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and cement pressed into sheets.
What is fibro in Tamil?
Fibro in Tamil is இழைமம், இழையம், இழை. See Fibro meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fibro?
Fibro is a noun.

Words near fibro in the dictionary

  1. fibrization
  2. fibrize
  3. fibrized
  4. fibrizes
  5. fibrizing
  6. fibro
  7. fibro-
  8. fibro-adenia
  9. fibro-adenias
  10. fibro-xanthogranuloma
  11. fibro-xanthogranulomatous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fibro (page history and authors); fibro (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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