STRINGY

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.

2.
a.

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, and tetradonta), which have a fibrous bark used by the aborigines for making cordage and cloth.


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