1 having the appearance of strings, or (of food) hard to chew:
The pulse was stringy and fine.
The texture was stringy and the total effect was as if we had tried roasting a cricket boot.
The bark is gray, with a fibrous stringy texture, shredding on old trees.
It can be used to make sandwiches, pastries and crpes, but it gets slightly rubbery instead of stringy with heat.
The suits were roughly made on a creek bed using a makeshift forge and a stringy-bark log as a muffled anvil.
Sphagnum moss is a stringy, delicate moss of a light-green color.
However, despite the rough and somewhat stringy bark, this tree is considered by scientists to be in the "mahogany" group of eucalyptus.
The nest is built from stringy plants, such as grasses or seaweed, and held together by the birds' own guano.
