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Definitions for: Stringy
[adj] lean and sinewy
[adj] forming viscous or glutinous threads
[adj] (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
Webster (1913) Definition: String"y, a.
1. Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous;
filamentous; as, a stringy root.
2. Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous
substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.
Stringy bark (Bot.), a name given in Australia to several
trees of the genus Eucalyptus (as {E. amygdalina, obliqua,
capitellata, macrorhyncha, piperita, pilularis, &
tetradonta}), which have a fibrous bark used by the
aborigines for making cordage and cloth.
Synonyms: fibrous, lean, ropey, ropy, sinewy, thick, thin, thready, tough, unchewable, wiry
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