animal fiber

1. 1.

   fiber derived from animals

   Synonymsanimal fibre

   Broadernatural fiberanimal product

   Narrowerhorsehairsilkwool

Questions about animal fiber

What does animal fiber mean?

animal fiber means "fiber derived from animals".

What is another word for animal fiber?

Close synonyms include animal fibre. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is animal fiber a common word?

animal fiber is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.