The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stringy \String"y\, a.
Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.
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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.
Usage examples of "stringy bark".
She arranged the fireweed fuzz in a nest of stringy bark under the notch of the fire platform and braced it with her foot, then put the end of the cattail stalk in the notch and took a deep breath.
Then she twisted tough stringy bark from a low-growing shrub into a cord and threaded it through the holes and pulled it tight to make a pouch.
Box, Red Stringy Bark and White Box mostly, and Casuarina in the understorey.
It was a variety of beech, but with a peculiar stringy bark that the tree continuously shed.
The stringy bark of an ancient cherry tree, the voice of sandpaper.