bast fiber

1. 1.

   strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants

   Synonymsbast

   Broadernatural fiber

Questions about bast fiber

What does bast fiber mean?

bast fiber means "strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants".

What is another word for bast fiber?

Close synonyms include bast. 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 bast fiber a common word?

bast 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.