From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Stringy \String"y\, 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.
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{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}, & {Eucalyptus
tetradonta}), which have a fibrous bark used by the
aborigines for making cordage and cloth.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stringy
adj 1: lean and sinewy [syn: {stringy}, {wiry}]
2: (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew [syn:
{fibrous}, {sinewy}, {stringy}, {unchewable}]
3: forming viscous or glutinous threads [syn: {ropy}, {ropey},
{stringy}, {thready}]
4: consisting of or containing string or strings
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