stringy

Adjective
US[string-ee]/ˈstrɪŋi/2 syllables
Synonyms: wiryfibroussinewyunchewableropyropeythready

Open English WordNet

Adjective (4)stringier, stringiest

  1. lean and sinewySynonyms: wiryOpposite fatSimilar thin, lean
  2. (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chewSynonyms: fibroussinewyunchewableOpposite tenderSimilar tough
  3. forming viscous or glutinous threadsSynonyms: ropyropeythreadyOpposite thinSimilar thick
  4. consisting of or containing string or stringsOpposite materialSimilar insubstantial, unsubstantial
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

String′y adjective

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 Botany, 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.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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