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Webster 1913 Edition


fibroin

fi′bro-in

(fī′brō̍-ĭn or fĭb′rō̍-ĭn)
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Noun.
[L.
fibra
a fiber.]
(Chem.)
A variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass.