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  • adjective Common misspelling of fibrous.

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Examples

  • The outer portion is soft and fiberous which is removed before it arrives in western stores.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Filipino Batman, WOOT! 2007

  • Be sure to taste-test your mangoes before you start baking, as some can be a little fiberous and you want to have the silkiest, sweetest mango you can get to achieve the best results on this cake.

    Baking Bites » Print » Bites from other Blogs 2009

  • Be sure to taste-test your mangoes before you start baking, as some can be a little fiberous and you want to have the silkiest, sweetest mango you can get to achieve the best results on this cake.

    Bites from other Blogs | Baking Bites 2009

  • For instance an acre of hemp produces as mush paper as four acres of trees, from thre bio-mass you can get ethanol at cheaper than you can produce it from corn, from the seeds you get oil for cooking or for bio-diseal, frpom its fiberous stems you can make cloth.

    Matthew Yglesias » Marijuana Legalization More Popular than Key Conservative Leaders 2009

  • The only thing we have this week is D's eye surgery tomorrow...he has fiberous strands forming behind his implants.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Molly Daniels 2009

  • This process causes the hair to grow back white and rarely results in the appearance of keloids a fiberous growth resulting from skin damage.

    Some linkage and such... 2008

  • He's undoubtedly dead of Mesothelioma, courtesy of his poorly self-designed asbestos clothing sending millions of jolly, microscopic fiberous visitors to his lungs, lo, those many years ago when that punk ass Human Torch beat him so very, very easily.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Brian Hughes 2008

  • He's undoubtedly dead of Mesothelioma, courtesy of his poorly self-designed asbestos clothing sending millions of jolly, microscopic fiberous visitors to his lungs, lo, those many years ago when that punk ass Human Torch beat him so very, very easily.

    Thanksgiving Turkeys: The Asbestos Man Brian Hughes 2008

  • But you can over-felt, and end up with something like a thick, fiberous brick.

    Thursday's Knitting Question, and Mom Susan Palwick 2007

  • I am currently on a diet that composes of All fats, All Proteins, and vegetables fiberous ones, non starchy.

    Metabolism and ketosis | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007

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  • Pertaining to fiber; having the quality of

    December 27, 2007