Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FI'BROUS
FI'BROUS, a.
- Composed or consisting of fibers; as, a fibrous body or substance.
- Containing fibers. In mineralogy, a fibrous fracture, is that which presents fine threads or slender lines, either straight or curved, parallel, diverging, or stellated, like the rays of a star. Kirwan.
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