fibrous

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• That’s largely because replicating the structure of chicken muscle — which has a fibrous quality, with strands that pull apart — is much harder than creating a ground meat lookalike.

• Previous efforts to convert this fibrous material, called corn stover, into fuel met with limited success.

• Another thing to keep in mind is that some varieties have a fibrous string running along the seam of the pod that needs to be removed before consumption.

• They were made using okara, a fibrous byproduct of tofu production.

• Additionally, they found fibrous bread and charcoal that points to a potential bread-like product cooked on a hot rock—more or less the earliest known iteration of a pancake.

• What happens is that the inflammation of the liver triggered by the infection causes it to contract and it becomes a fibrous blob.

• But this paper was a very tough, fibrous substance, and would resist quite a heavy blow as well as keep out the cold.

• “Fibrous” applies metaphorically to mental qualities; it means strong, sinewy—high talents, just below genius.

• The essential point in which it differs from any other known mineral consists in its being at once fibrous and textile.

• At Rockhausen, not far from Erfurth, in Prussia, there fell a great quantity of a fibrous matter resembling human hair.

• The larger ropes used by them, two inches in diameter, were made from the roots of the spruce.