Meaning of STRINGY
Pronunciation: | | 'streengee
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- [adj] lean and sinewy
- [adj] forming viscous or glutinous threads
- [adj] (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
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| Synonyms: | | fibrous, lean, ropey, ropy, sinewy, thick, thin, thready, tough, unchewable, wiry |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \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.
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