| 单词 | fibrous |
| 释义 | fibrous (once / 3973 pages) adj Something that's fibrous is coarse and stringy, like thick yarn or twine. Some baskets are made of woven and twisted fibrous branches. Fibrous things look like the fibers that are braided or twisted together to make a length of rope or jute. Many tree roots are fibrous, as are many vines and branches. A complicated hairdo may look like it's made of fibrous cords of hair. When you're eating something fibrous, it's hard to chew, like a chunk of fibrous meat in your stew or a fibrous broccoli stalk in your stir-fry. Fibrous comes from the Latin fibra, "fiber or filament." WORD FAMILYfibrous: fibrosity, fibrously, fibrousness+/fiber: fibers, fibrous USAGE EXAMPLESIn addition to fibrous foods, confiscated narcotics and “anything counterfeit” — like fake Viagra, he said — is incinerated. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) Watching the Man head into the forest to yank up some kind of tough, fibrous plant, you wonder: What’s he going to do with that? New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) The slippery, light green leaves had fibrous stalks that did not become tender from cooking and so had to be carefully plucked out. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) 1adj having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute Syn hempen tough resistant to cutting or chewing 2adj (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew Syn sinewy, stringy, unchewable tough resistant to cutting or chewing |
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