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stringy

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Stringy  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  stringy 
  adj  1:  lean  and  sinewy  [syn:  {wiry}] 
  2:  full  of  sinews;  especially  impossible  to  chew  [syn:  {fibrous}, 
  {sinewy},  {unchewable}] 
  3:  forming  viscous  or  glutinous  threads  [syn:  {ropy},  {ropey}, 
  {thready}]




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