Thesaurus: stringy

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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.
3. adj. lean and sinewy
4. adj. (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
5. adj. forming viscous or glutinous threads
6. adj. consisting of or containing string or strings
7. 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, and tetradonta), which have a fibrous bark used by the aborigines for making cordage and cloth.
8. j:100 s. lean and sinewy s. consisting of or containing string or strings