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1. (adj.) stringy
resembling or consisting of strings or stringlike pieces:
stringy weeds.
2. stringy
toughly fibrous:
stringy meat.
3. stringy
lean and sinewy; wiry:
a stringy build.
4. stringy
ropy, as a glutinous liquid.
Etymology: (1660–70)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) stringy, wiry
lean and sinewy
2. (adj) fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable
(of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
3. (adj) ropy, ropey, stringy, thready
forming viscous or glutinous threads
4. (adj) stringy
consisting of or containing string or strings
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) stringy
consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root
2. (adj) stringy
capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely
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Sense: (especially of meat or vegetables) having a lot of tough fibres.
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 Afrikaans: veselagtig |
 Arabic: ذو ألياف |
 Bulgarian: жилав |
 Brazilian: fibroso |
 Czech: vláknitý |
 German: faserig |
 Danish: senet; trevlet |
 Greek: ινώδης |
 Spanish: fibroso |
 Estonian: kiuline, vintske |
 Farsi: ريش ريش |
 Finnish: runsaskuituinen |
 French: filandreux |
 Hebrew: סִיבִי |
 Hindi: रेशेदार |
 Croatian: vlaknast, vlaknat |
 Hungarian: szálkás |
 Indonesian: berserat |
 Icelandic: trefjóttur; sinamikill, s |
 Italian: fibroso, filaccioso |
 Japanese: すじの多い |
 Korean: 섬유질이 많은 |
 Lithuanian: plaušingas, skaidulingas |
 Latvian: šķiedrains; elastīgs |
 Malay: berserabut; berurat |
 Dutch: draderig |
 Norwegian: trevlet, seig; treen |
 Polish: włóknisty, żylasty |
 Persian: ريش ريش |
 Pashto: ریښکی ریښکی ، تار لرونکی |
 Portuguese: fibroso |
 Romanian: fibros |
 Russian: волокнистый; жилистый |
 Slovak: šľachovitý, vláknitý |
 Slovenian: žilav; vlaknat |
 Serbian: žilav |
 Swedish: trådig |
 Thai: (เนื้อ; ผัก) เหนียว |
 Turkish: lifli |
 Taiwanese: 多筋的 |
 Ukrainian: волокнистий |
 Urdu: ریشے دار |
 Vietnamese: có nhiều thớ, sợi |
 Chinese: 多筋的 |
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