[ UK /fˈɪbɹəs/ ]
[ US /ˈfaɪbɹəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
  2. having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute
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How To Use fibrous In A Sentence

  • Some of the larger dilated channels exhibit abortive fibrous tufts, which are slender and poorly cellular.
  • Amosite, fibrous anthophyllite, fibrous tremolite, fibrous actinolite, and crocidolite are amphiboles, double-chain silicates, which observed microscopically look like sharp needles.
  • The fracture surface is a fibrous slant fracture.
  • Manufacturers are examining ways of using cementitious or fibrous core insulating materials in place of the plastic insulations.
  • The lower part of the stalks can be used in a soup, pasta or risotto, after peeling away remaining fibrous threads. Times, Sunday Times
  • To make matters worse, thick, fibrous adhesions are often formed anchoring the congested, fatty tissue to the muscular layer below.
  • When cooked, the mescal is a fibrous, sticky, syrupy substance with a flavor similar to molasses.
  • Mature fruits were collected manually from the ground and the fibrous pericarps were removed using a mechanical dehusker immediately following harvest.
  • The stroma of the papillary fronds consisted of loose fibrous tissue with abundant, thin-walled, congested blood vessels.
  • The textures of thunder eggs can vary from distinctly radiating fibrous textures to cryptocrystalline aggregates that preserve the structure of the original rhyolite.
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