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• liber
  liber

  noun

  phloem.
• Liber
  Liber

  noun

  an ancient Italian god of wine and vineyards, in later times identified with Bacchus.

liber

¹ American  

[lahy-ber] / ˈlaɪ bər /

noun

Botany.

1. phloem.

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liber ² American  

[lahy-ber, li-ber] / ˈlaɪ bər, ˈlɪ bɛr /

noun

plural

libri, libers

1. a book of public records, as deeds or birth certificates.

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Liber ³ American  

[lahy-ber] / ˈlaɪ bər /

noun

1. an ancient Italian god of wine and vineyards, in later times identified with Bacchus.

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liber British  

/ ˈlaɪbə /

noun

1. a rare name for phloem

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Etymology

Origin of liber¹

1745–55; < Latin: bark; akin to leaf

Origin of liber²

< Latin: book, originally bark; see liber ¹

Example Sentences

A friend described him as a “true believer,” devoted to the mission of Special Forces: De oppresso liber, to free the oppressed.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2021

Registered the within manumission at full length, this eleventh day of July, 1766, in liber D.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2015

If one would know more about Pepys than can be gleaned from the colyums of the Manhattan daily that records the doings of his modern prototype, ecce liber.

From Time Magazine Archive

Automation is also certain to liber ate both manpower and brainpower to tackle tasks hitherto considered impossible and to meet human needs till now deemed impractical.

From Time Magazine Archive

From his earliest years he devoted himself to historical and geographical research, and his first work, Egregiarum seu selectarum lectionum et antiquitatum liber, published in his eighteenth year, displayed great erudition.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various