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.