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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous;

as, a

stringy

root

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

Eucalyptus amygdalina

Eucalyptus obliqua

Eucalyptus capitellata

Eucalyptus macrorhyncha

Eucalyptus piperita

Eucalyptus pilularis

, and

Eucalyptus tetradonta

), which have a fibrous bark used by the aborigines for making cordage and cloth.

Adj.

Consisting of strings or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as a stringy root.

Ropy; viscid; gluey; that may be drawn into a thread.