stringy

1. a. Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root. Source: opted

2. a. Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely. Source: opted

3. adj. lean and sinewy Source: wordnet

4. adj. (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew Source: wordnet

5. adj. forming viscous or glutinous threads Source: wordnet

6. adj. consisting of or containing string or strings Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

8. j:100 s. lean and sinewy s. consisting of or containing string or strings Source: ecdict

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