fibrous
/ˈfaɪbɹəs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.94 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to fibre.
adj
Containing many fibres - referring mainly to food.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree English fibre Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English fibrous From fibre + -ous.
Inflected Forms
more fibrous (comparative)
most fibrous (superlative)