Definition of Fibrously

1. Adverb. In a fibrous manner ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fibrously

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fibrously

fibrous pneumonia
fibrous polyp
fibrous protein
fibrous ring
fibrous ring of heart
fibrous ring of intervertebral disc
fibrous sheaths
fibrous skeleton of heart
fibrous tissue
fibrous trigones of heart
fibrous tubercle
fibrous tunic of eye
fibrous union
fibrous xanthoma
fibrously (current term)
fibrousness
fibrovascular
fibrovascular bundle
fibroxanthoma
fibs
fibster
fibsters
fibula
fibulae
fibular
fibular artery
fibular articular surface of tibia
fibular collateral ligament
fibular collateral ligament of ankle

Literary usage of Fibrously

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 by Wisconsin Chief Geologist, Wisconsin Geological Survey (1880)
"Very coarse, fibrously radiated crystalline texture. The fan- shaped bunches of actinolite are ... Under the M. it presents a fibrously reticulated mass. ..."

2. Proceedings by Bristol Naturalists' Society (Bristol, England), Bristol Naturalists' Society (1891)
"... longitudinally fibrously striate below; flesh rather flesh-coloured, becoming ruddy at apex and base; gills broad (1 cm), scarcely crowded, adnate, ..."

3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"fibrously ankylosed joints easily become tired even to the degree of painfulness and are much liable to subsequent contracture. More in the shoulder joint ..."

4. Physics of the Air by William Jackson Humphreys (1920)
"Any cloud, therefore, produced in this fibrously humid air obviously itself must have the same general structure—a common structure of cirrus clouds. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1841)
"It tore fibrously like paper. Specimens were preserved in several collections, where it was known by the name of Meteor-paper, and by many was actually ..."

6. The Anatomy of Woody Plants by Edward Charles Jeffrey (1917)
"Meanwhile the transfusion elements occurring on the upper side of the tracheary strands in their upward course pass imperceptibly into the fibrously ..."

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