OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12525

fibre

/ˈfaɪ.bə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
brenca • fibra
A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.
fibra
A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
It is the deeper parts of such cells which give rise to delicate muscular fibres or networks of fibres, while the superficially placed body of the cell myoblast), the part which pr…
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