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English Dictionary: Stringy by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stringy
adj
  1. lean and sinewy
    Synonym(s): stringy, wiry
  2. (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
    Synonym(s): fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable
  3. forming viscous or glutinous threads
    Synonym(s): ropy, ropey, stringy, thready
  4. consisting of or containing string or strings
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, [and]
            tetradonta}), which have a fibrous bark used by the
            aborigines for making cordage and cloth.
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