fiberboard
Americannoun
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a building material made of wood or other plant fibers compressed and cemented into rigid sheets.
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a sheet of this.
Etymology
Origin of fiberboard
Example Sentences
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Some 7,000 acres burned by the Bootleg went through a major thinning that turned smaller trees into chips hauled to a Klamath Falls fiberboard plant and left larger trees with more space to grow.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2023
He paints smaller-scale works, too, like the two six-foot acrylic works on engraved medium-density fiberboard, plywood and gold leaf that Petzel will show next to the Mountain Bar at TEFAF.
From New York Times • May 5, 2023
As a piece of furniture, Ira becomes a 68-inch-tall, 60-inch-wide white shelf — it’s an inverted pyramid with four ledges and a brick-red sun detail at the top, made of medium-density fiberboard and aluminum laminate.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2022
Fully Jarvis EcoTop Standing Desk $484 $569 15% off As the name suggests the EcoTop standing desk uses a topper that's made out of medium-density fiberboard that's 92-percent recycled or recovered.
From The Verge • Mar. 2, 2022
Small pieces of fiberboard were impregnated with the two chemicals and were distributed by air over the entire island chain to attract and kill the male flies.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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