become fibrous

You must not overcook the cod, or it will become fibrous and dry.

Small branches are covered with silvery hairs, which later become fibrous and have a red brown colour.

Specifically, the nucleus becomes fibrous and stiff and less able to bear load.

The tip becomes fibrous and frothy.

During the second wet season from September to December, when the tall grasses became fibrous, they moved into lower elevation short grass open forests.

The blood clot takes about 8 weeks to become fibrous tissue and it takes 4 months to become fibrocartilage.

Three weeks after pollination, the pod becomes fibrous and after six weeks mature seeds can be harvested.

The green pods are edible whole but in some varieties (the scarlet runner) tend to become fibrous early, and only the seeds within are eaten.

By doing so, the lignin is degraded in the infested zones, and the wood becomes fibrous, bleaches, and loses strength.

The seed pods rapidly become fibrous and woody, and, to be edible, must be harvested within a week of the fruit having been pollinated.

Immature roots have a bitter taste and, if early-seeded rutabagas are left in the field until late fall, the roots tend to become fibrous and woody.

Ground down by machine, wood becomes fibrous enough to make paper, but grinding doesn't remove lignin, a dark substance in wood that gives newsprint its yellow tinge and makes it get more yellow with age.

"As the vocal membranes are used more,they become fibrous and stiff with a diminished amplitude of vibration," said Dr. Steven Zeitels, Professor of Laryngeal Surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Then she raised her lamp higher and the air seemed to become fibrous and to tear away from the green surface flickering and flaming in red and yellow fibres like the smoky fire that roars from a bonfire.

It may also form inside the body when certain conditions, such as cirrhosis, cause normal tissue to become fibrous tissue.