fibro
English
Etymology
Abbreviations.
Noun
fibro (uncountable)
- (Australia) Fibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and cement pressed into sheets.
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 322:
- Her house was a little grey fibro job. Nondescript really, with cracked and broken fibro louvres, sad and sorry walls.
- 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 19:
- There are a few faded colourless fibro buildings, jagged black holes punched here and there in the panels.
- (informal) Fibromyalgia.
- 2011, Linda Kay Mullinax, It's Okay to Hurt: My Life with Fibromyalgia, page 43:
- When I got fibro, the Internet was not in common use, so I didn't have the resources that a newly diagnosed person would have now.
Translations
fibro-cement
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Ido
Etymology
From Esperanto fibro, from English fibre, French fibre, German Fiber, Italian fibra, Spanish fibra, Portuguese fibra.
Noun
fibro (plural fibri)
Derived terms
Latin
Noun
fibrō
- dative/ablative singular of fiber