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FIBERBOARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fiberboard mean? 

FIBERBOARD (noun)
  The noun FIBERBOARD has 1 sense:

1. wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheetsplay

  Familiarity information: FIBERBOARD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FIBERBOARD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fiberboard; fibreboard; particle board

Hypernyms ("fiberboard" is a kind of...):

dry wall; drywall; wallboard (a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fiberboard"):

Masonite (a type of fiberboard)


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