STRINGIEST

STRINGY

stringy

(adjective) consisting of or containing string or strings

stringy, wiry

(adjective) lean and sinewy

ropy, ropey, stringy, thready

(adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads

fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable

(adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

stringiest

superlative form of stringy: most stringy

Anagrams

• grittiness, resittings

Source: Wiktionary


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, and tetradonta), which have a fibrous bark used by the aborigines for making cordage and cloth.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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