From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: lean and sinewy [syn: {wiry}]
2: (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew [syn: {fibrous}, {sinewy}, {unchewable}]
3: forming viscous or glutinous threads [syn: {ropy}, {ropey}, {thready}] [also: {stringiest}, {stringier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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