Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: fibrous
IPA transcription: [f'aɪbɹəs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable
    Meaning: (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
  • Synonyms: hempen, fibrous
    Meaning: having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute
Usage examples
  • After we had passed the basaltic wall of the fiord of Stapi we passed over a vegetable fibrous peat bog, left from the ancient vegetation of this peninsula.
  • The stones, adhering by no soil or fibrous roots of vegetation, rolled away from under our feet, and rushed down the precipice below with the swiftness of an avalanche.
  • The hand of Death, hovering over the dolls, had singled out Flora, the articulations of whose sawdust body were seams and whose boots were painted on her calves of fibrous plaster.
  • Having obtained a quantity sufficient for his purpose, he places it in a bag made of the net-like fibrous substance attached to all cocoanut trees, and compressing it over the bread-fruit, which being now sufficiently pounded, is put into a wooden bowl--extracts a thick creamy milk.