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fibrous

Syllables: fi·brous/ˈfaɪbɹəs/

fibrous adjective: of or pertaining to fibre.

Adjective

fibrous (comparative more fibrous, superlative most fibrous)

  1. 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.2008, Philip A. Clarke, Aboriginal Plant Collectors: Botanists and Australian Aboriginal People in the Nineteenth Century, page 50
  2. 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...1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 158
    Synonyms:
    stringy
  3. Having the shape of fibres.

fibrous meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Sanskrit

fibrous in Tamil

இழை உரு, இழையான, நார்திசுக்களால் ஆன, நாருருவான, நார்த்தன்மைய

fibrous in Urdu

جڑیلا, ریشے دار

fibrous in Kannada

ನಾರಿನಿಂದ ತುಂಬಿದ, ನಾರಿನಿಂದ ಮಾಡಿದ, ನಾರಿನಂತಿರುವ, ಬಲವಾದ, ಗಟ್ಟಿಯಾದ, ನಾರಿನ

fibrous in Sanskrit

fibrous, rich in filaments
अंशुमत् aṃśumát
a fibrous or flexible root
शिफा śiphā

Examples of fibrous in a sentence

  • Mitral valve biopsy revealed a cardiac valve with a collagenized fibrous nodule.
  • Fibrous webs can be formed using various techniques including drylaid, wetlaid and spunmelt technologies.
  • Demosponges have siliceous spicules and a network of fibrous protein, spongir, that is similar to collagen.

All 29 example sentences with fibrous

Synonyms of fibrous

Forms of fibrous

comparativemore fibrous
superlativemost fibrous

Origin of fibrous

From fibre + -ous.

Words formed from fibrous

Phrases with fibrous

Questions about fibrous

What does fibrous mean?
Fibrous means of or pertaining to fibre.
What is fibrous in Tamil?
Fibrous in Tamil is இழை உரு, இழையான, நார்திசுக்களால் ஆன. See Fibrous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fibrous?
Fibrous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce fibrous?
Fibrous is pronounced /ˈfaɪbɹəs/.

Words near fibrous in the dictionary

  1. fibrothorax
  2. fibrotic
  3. fibrotically
  4. fibrotisation
  5. fibrotization
  6. fibrous
  7. fibrous dysplasia
  8. fibrous dysplasias
  9. fibrously
  10. fibrousness
  11. fibrovascular

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fibrous (page history and authors); fibrous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fibrous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fibrous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); अंशुमत् (Sanskrit) (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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