Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having, consisting of, or resembling fibers.
- adjective Full of sinews; tough.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing or consisting of fibers; having the character of fibers. Also
fibrose .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing, or consisting of, fibers
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
fibre .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute
- adjective (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
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Examples
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When the fibrous stroma is greatly in excess -- _fibrous goitre_ -- the swelling is smaller, firmer, and shows a greater tendency to contract and compress the trachea.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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# -- Sometimes the fragments become united by a dense band of fibrous tissue, and the reparative process goes no further -- _fibrous union_.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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"It presents," added the doctor, "all the indications of what we call a fibrous tumor."
Danger 1847
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Instead, the titanium is simply encapsulated in fibrous tissue.
Wooden bones ewillett 2010
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Instead, the titanium is simply encapsulated in fibrous tissue.
Wooden bones ewillett 2010
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They therefore tend to become fibrous, which is why asparagus and broccoli stems often need to be peeled before cooking, celery and cardoon stalks deveined.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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They therefore tend to become fibrous, which is why asparagus and broccoli stems often need to be peeled before cooking, celery and cardoon stalks deveined.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The roots of each look like a little bundle of strings or fibers, and are therefore called fibrous; the stalks you will find jointed and hollow; and the leaves are long and narrow, tapering to a point at their ends.
New National Fourth Reader J. Marshall Hawkes
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The outer sac, known as the fibrous pericardium, consists of fibrous tissue.
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Hence the latter have also been called fibrous or muscular layers.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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