Tampico fiber
English
Alternative forms
- Tampico fibre
Noun
Tampico fiber (countable and uncountable, plural Tampico fibers)
- A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes.
Usage notes
- The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Tampico fiber in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)