fibrous

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to fibre.
    — 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.
  2. Containing many fibres - referring mainly to food.
    — 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.
  3. Having the shape of fibres.

词形变化

more fibrous comparative most fibrous superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
fibrous dysplasia fibrously fibrousness interfibrous macrofibrous microfibrous mucofibrous myofibrous myxofibrous nonfibrous osteofibrous subfibrous unfibrous

词源

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.
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