as in stringy
resembling or having the texture of a mass of strings thick, fibrous hair that was not easy to comb

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Recent Examples of fibrous But the device is less intuitive than the current generation of high-end juicers, leafy greens required a bit of fiddling to push through the feeder tube, and the device struggled with fibrous vegetables such as pineapple and broccoli. Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2025 Easy to Digest Juicing, including cold pressing, removes the indigestible fibrous skin and pulp. Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 7 Mar. 2025 Surgery — like the type Paige-Angulo had — may be needed to remove the tissue and adhesions, which are fibrous bands that connect organs that would otherwise be separate, the National Library of Medicine explains. Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025 The resulting fibrous slurry is claimed to be much like the pulp used in paper-making. Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 28 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fibrous

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“Fibrous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fibrous. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.

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