stringy

About 0.34 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
2. adjective Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue.

   The meat was quite stringy.

3. adjective Wiry, lean, scrawny.
4. adjective Resembling or involving text strings.
5. adjective Of a sighting, unlikely to be accurate; probably based on a misidentification, whether innocent or deliberate.

Similar words

ropey ropy thready thick lean wiry thin sinewy fibrous tough

Often followed by

and hair bark mucus or black meat blond brown

Word family

stringier stringiest stringiness stringinesses