| Stringy | a. 1. Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely. [ 1913 Webster ] Stringy bark (Bot.), a name given in Australia to several trees of the genus Eucalyptus (as Eucalyptus amygdalina, Eucalyptus obliqua, Eucalyptus capitellata, Eucalyptus macrorhyncha, Eucalyptus piperita, Eucalyptus pilularis, and Eucalyptus tetradonta), which have a fibrous bark used by the aborigines for making cordage and cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]
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