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fiberboard

American  
[fahy-ber-bawrd, -bohrd] / ˈfaɪ bərˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /

noun

  1. a building material made of wood or other plant fibers compressed and cemented into rigid sheets.

  2. a sheet of this.


Etymology

Origin of fiberboard

First recorded in 1895–1900; fiber + board

Example Sentences

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Titled “Gizmo 1,” the five-foot-tall plywood and carved fiberboard tower sits in the animal pasture.

From Seattle Times

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

The materials are simple — plexiglass, plywood, medium-density fiberboard, Formica, nails, screws and light bulbs.

From New York Times

Mr. Ross bought mushroom spores from local farmers and coaxed them to grow into a substance he describes as akin to medium-density fiberboard.

From New York Times

The exhibition’s sleek pink fiberboard platforms would make the pieces “capital-A art.”

From New York Times