fi´ber|less

fi´ber|less: fi|ber «FY buhr», noun.

1. a) a thread; threadlike part; any one of the very fine, long, threadlike pieces of which many organic and some inorganic materials consist; filament: »A muscle is made up of many fibers.
b) a similar structure of artificial origin: »a fiber of rayon, a fiber of glass.

2. a substance made up of threads or threadlike parts: »Hemp fiber can be spun into rope or woven into coarse cloth.

3. texture: »a cloth of coarse fiber.

4. Figurative. character; nature: »He was a person of strong moral fiber and could resist temptation.

5. one of the narrow elongated cells found in the bast of plants.

6. a slender, threadlike root of a plant.

7. one of the most slender twigs of a tree or bush: »to the last fiber of the loftiest tree (Shelley).

8. = vulcanized fiber. (Cf. ↑vulcanized fiber)

9. = dietary fiber: (Cf. ↑dietary fiber) »Some types of fiber bind bile salts and acids, cholesterol, and other sterols, enhancing their elimination and thereby lowering their level in the blood (Mina W. Lamb).
Also, fibre.

╂[< Old French fibre, learned borrowing from Latin fibra]

–fi´ber|less, adjective.

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