Fibrous Meaning
/ˈfaɪbɹəs/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjOf or pertaining to fibre.
adjContaining many fibres - referring mainly to food.
Sentence Examples
The persimmon is a sweet fruit, slightly spicy with a soft and sometimes fibrous texture.
Keratin is one of a family of fibrous structural proteins known as scleroproteins.
The fibrous bark can be used to make ropes.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ root of the plant helps anchor it firmly in the soil.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Celery has a very ____ texture, which some people find unpleasant to eat unless it is cooked first.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English fibre Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English fibrous From fibre + -ous.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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."
— 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 158:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ root of the plant helps anchor it firmly in the soil.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Celery has a very ____ texture, which some people find unpleasant to eat unless it is cooked first.