fibrous

CEFRC1

/ˈfaɪbɹəs/

adjective

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Keratin is one of a family of fibrous structural proteins known as scleroproteins.
The fibrous bark can be used to make ropes.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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The persimmon is a sweet fruit, slightly spicy with a soft and sometimes fibrous texture.
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.

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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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From fibre + -ous.