stringy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: string=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

stringy, a. 

•  Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.  [1913 Webster]
•  Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.  [1913 Webster]

Stringy bark (Bot.), a name given in Australia to several trees of the genus Eucalyptus (as E. amygdalina, obliqua, capitellata, macrorhyncha, piperita, pilularis, ), which have a fibrous bark used by the aborigines for making cordage and cloth.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

stringy, adj. (stringier, stringiest)
1 (of food etc.) fibrous, tough.
2 of or like string.
3 (of a person) tall, wiry, and thin.
4 (of a liquid) viscous; forming strings.

Idiom

stringy-bark Austral. any of various eucalyptus trees with tough fibrous bark.

Derivative

stringily adv. stringiness n.

THESAURUS

stringy

adhesive, amylaceous, besprinkle, capillary, cartilaginous, chewy, cirrose, cirrous, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, cohesive, coriaceous, curdled, doughy, durable, dust, fibered, fibroid, fibrous, flagelliform, flossy, funicular, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, gossamery, gristly, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, hairlike, hairy, hard, hardy, heavy, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, lasting, leatherlike, leathery, ligamental, mucilaginous, pasty, powder, resistant, ropy, silky, sinewy, slabby, slimy, slithery, starchy, sticky, stiff, stodgy, strong, stubborn, syrupy, tacky, taeniate, taeniform, tenacious, thick, thickened, threadlike, thready, tough, tough as leather, tremelloid, tremellose, untiring, vigorous, viscid, viscose, viscous, wiry

ROGET THESAURUS

stringy

Filament

N filament, line, fiber, fibril, funicle, vein, hair, capillament, cilium, cilia, pilus, pili, tendril, gossamer, hair stroke, veinlet, venula, venule, wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute, strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving, beard, ramification, strand, filamentous, filamentiferous, filaceous, filiform, fibrous, fibrillous, thread-like, wiry, stringy, ropy, capillary, capilliform, funicular, wire-drawn, anguilliform, flagelliform, hairy, taeniate, taeniform, taenioid, venose, venous.

Tenacity

N tenacity, toughness, strength, (cohesion), grip, grasp, stickiness, (cohesion), sequacity, stubbornness (obstinacy), glue, cement, glutinousness, sequaciousness, viscidity, (semiliquidity), leather, white leather, whitleather, gristle, cartilage, unbreakability, tensile strength, tenacious, tough, strong, resisting, sequacious, stringy, gristly cartilaginous, leathery, coriaceous, tough as whitleather, stubborn, unbreakable, indivisible, atomic.