1. Having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute
   - hempen 
2. (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
   - sinewy, stringy, unchewable

See also: fiber [US], tough

Encyclopedia: Fibrous

• bacterial plaque
• bacterial toxin
• bacterially
• bactericidal
• bactericide
• bacteriemia
• bacteriochlorophyll
• bacterioid
• bacterioidal
• bacteriologic
• bacteriological
• bacteriological warfare
• bacteriologist
• bacteriology
• bacteriolysis
• bacteriolytic
• bacteriophage
• bacteriophagic
• bacteriophagous
• bacteriostasis
• bacteriostat
• bacteriostatic
• bacterise
• bacterium
• bacterize