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    fibrous


    1. are supported and maintained in proper relation to one another by means of fibrous and


    2. The supply of this vitamin decreases when there is an increase in the consumption of fats and minerals, and is conserved by the intake of fibrous foods


    3. Along with steel fibrous concrete there is positive experience of application of glass-fiber reinforced concrete (glass-fiber reinforced cement) that allows reducing additionally weight of constructions


    4. The light was sucked up by the fibrous black dust that coated everything


    5. The space between the space is fibrous


    6. Her still-healing fingers dipped into a stalk and tugged out the almost fibrous substance, dropping it into a bowl by her side


    7. Under his hand there was not the smooth, brittle surface of glass or metal or stone, but the yielding, fibrous mass of a living thing


    8. José Arcadio restored Meme’s bedroom and had the velvet curtains cleaned and mended along with the damask on the canopy of the viceregal bed, and he put to use once more the abandoned bathroom where the cement pool was blackened by a fibrous and rough coating


    9. In an operation that lasted almost 1 hour I had to search for the pin guided by the x-ray and finally retrieved a small rusty pin which was surrounded by fibrous tissues from his foot


    10. to one another by means of fibrous and elastic connective tissue

    11. We sat down at a table covered with a black fibrous cloth, surrounded by silhouette images of cats, the


    12. In the neurology department, after a series of X-rays and com-puterized tomography, the doctor diagnosed that she had had osteochondrosis of the spinal column for a long time, and the fall had caused the fibrous ring to burst and a 7 mm herniation of the intervebral disk


    13. As the maturity of the fruits of these trees requires the continuity of their life and of the sap flowing in them, therefore you find their leaves either covered with a waxy surface or of fibrous veins; and thereby they are more durable and more resistant


    14. Because the maturity of the fruits of these trees requires the continuity of their life and of the sap flowing through them, therefore you find that their leaves are either covered with a waxy surface, or made up of fibrous veins


    15. The more, the better with this and stick to fibrous vegetables (peppers, celery, cucumbers, broccoli) and throw in some tomatoes and


    16. The walls of the vegetarian inside are very apt to come together if the owner strikes out all the things he is warned against from his menu, and then it is, when they are about to do that, that fibrous bulk, most convenient in this form, should be applied; and, like the roasted Sunday goose of our fleshlier days in Rauchgasse, the vegetarian goes about stuffed with apples


    17. She most surely doesn’t want to touch them, as they seem hairy even though there appears to not be a shred of fibrous material on them, and though she could very easily click her shoes, that doesn’t guarantee this thing will go away and leave her alone


    18. • A loofah is a natural bath sponge taken from the fibrous interior of the loofah plant


    19. Let them taste how slimy and nauseating it tastes without turning it into an unrecognizable burnt, brown, decomposed tough fibrous thing that has no taste


    20. When the first plant kept its dead fibrous stem: and kept on growing around it: instead of dying completely when its upward mobility died

    21. A gelatinous, semifluid substance coated the fibrous tissue of these sponges, and from this tissue there escaped a steady trickle of water that, after carrying sustenance to each cell, was being expelled by a contracting movement


    22. Around this opening, which had, possibly, for ages permitted a free entrance to the brilliant moonbeams that now illumined the vast pile, grew a quantity of creeping plants, whose delicate green branches stood out in bold relief against the clear azure of the firmament, while large masses of thick, strong fibrous shoots forced their way through the chasm, and hung floating to and fro, like so many waving strings


    23. The surgery involved cutting the white fibrous connective tissue linking the frontal lobes to the rest of the brain, relieving the violent rages and psychological and physical pain some severely mentally ill patients suffered


    24. The punt cord had been drenched through with rain, pliant, slippery and fibrous


    25. There was an immense processing building in which the green fruit of the trees would be stripped away from the pits, and the smooth almond seeds from their hard, fibrous jackets


    26. If Lydgate had been aware of all the pride he excited in that delicate bosom, he might have been just as well pleased as any other man, even the most densely ignorant of humoral pathology or fibrous tissue: he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in


    27. It shredded the cashmere coat, tearing fibrous material and parting soft flesh and clenched muscle with no effort Almost instantly, the long blade reappeared


    28. It is soft and springy underfoot and may be exposed on the edges of rocky outcrops—looking black and fibrous


    29. Rope can be made from any pliable, fibrous material producing strands of sufficient length and strength


    30. This will shred the outer surface exposing the fibrous centre

    31. -Leaves Plants such as those of the lily family, especially aloes, have very fibrous leaves


    32. When the water is at its height, the alders, willows, and maples send forth a mass of fibrous red roots several feet long from all sides of their stems in the water, and to the height of three or four feet from the ground, in the effort to maintain themselves; and I have known the high blueberry bushes about the shore, which commonly produce no fruit, bear an abundant crop under these circumstances


    33. Now, of course, this canal is filled with much the same strangely fibrous substance—the spinal cord—as the brain; and directly communicates with the brain


    34. In these stalactites, the structure is most remarkably distinct, both in the fibrous and concentric lamellar form


    35. The fragments of this were wedge-shaped, and I found the space between some of the laminæ filled up by a fibrous, silky substance, which induced me to break up other masses, in one of which I discovered an abundance of amianthus; the filaments are of a light-green colour in some parts of the mass—in others presenting different shades of brown


    36. He had with him two Italian makers of casts, and by their means has obtained a valuable series of casts of the sculptures of Persepolis from moulds of a fibrous Spanish paper


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    Synonyms for "fibrous"

    fibrous sinewy stringy unchewable hempen ropy gelatinous

    "fibrous" definitions

    having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute


    (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew