| stringy | 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. <botany> Stringy bark, 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: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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