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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STRINGY, a.
1. Consisting of strings or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as a stringy root.
2. Ropy; viscid; gluey; that may be drawn into a thread.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lean and sinewy [syn: stringy, wiry]
2: (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew [syn: fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable]
3: forming viscous or glutinous threads [syn: ropy, ropey, stringy, thready]
4: consisting of or containing string or strings

Merriam Webster's

adjective (stringier; -est) Date: 1662 1. a. containing, consisting of, or resembling fibrous matter or string <stringy hair> b. lean and sinewy in build ; wiry 2. capable of being drawn out to form a string ; ropy <a stringy precipitate> • stringiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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. Phrases and idioms: stringy-bark Austral. any of various eucalyptus trees with tough fibrous bark. Derivatives: stringily adv. stringiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stringy String"y, a. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(stringier, stringiest) Stringy food contains long, thin pieces that are difficult or unpleasant to eat. The meat was stringy... ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Fibrous, filamentous. 2. Ropy, viscid, viscous, glutinous, adhesive, smeary, dauby, gluey, tough, tenacious.

Moby Thesaurus

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