staple fibre

1. 1.

   a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn

   “staple fibers vary widely in length”

   Synonymsstaplestaple fiber

   Broadernatural fiber

Questions about staple fibre

What does staple fibre mean?

staple fibre means "a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn".

What is another word for staple fibre?

Close synonyms include staple, staple fiber. 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 staple fibre a common word?

staple fibre 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.