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stringy |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stringy \String"y\, a. 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, & tetradonta}), which have a fibrous bark used by the aborigines for making cordage and cloth. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: stringy adj 1: lean and sinewy [syn: {wiry}] 2: full of sinews; especially impossible to chew [syn: {fibrous}, {sinewy}, {unchewable}] 3: forming viscous or glutinous threads [syn: {ropy}, {ropey}, {thready}]
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