An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
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
Etymology
Adjective
stringy (comparative stringier, superlative stringiest)
Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
(of food) Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue.
(of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.
(programming, informal) Resembling or involving text strings.
Synonyms
• fibrous
• filamentous
Anagrams
• tryings
Source: Wiktionary
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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