Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stringy"
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) 1.7 (wn)
stringy
adj 1: lean and sinewy [syn: {wiry}]
2: (of meat) 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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