fibro

English

Abbreviations.

fibro (uncountable)

(Australia) Fibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and cement pressed into sheets.
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 56:
  Every day, all day and all night sometimes, the town jammed jazz with bits of loose tin slapping around on top of the mud-stained fibro walls […].
- 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin 2018, p. 19:
  There are a few faded colourless fibro buildings, jagged black holes punched here and there in the panels.
(informal) Fibromyalgia.
- 2011, Linda Kay Mullinax, It's Okay to Hurt: My Life with Fibromyalgia (page 43)
  When I got fibro, the Internet was not in common use, so I didn't have the resources that a newly diagnosed person would have now.

fibro-cement

Polish: azbestocement (pl) m
Russian: асбестоцеме́нтный ши́фер m (asbestoceméntnyj šífer), ши́фер (ru) m (šífer)

From Esperanto fibro, from English fibre, French fibre, German Fiber, Italian fibra, Spanish fibra, Portuguese fibra.

fibro (plural fibri)

fibrō