stringy adj

1 lean and sinewy [syn: wiry]

2 (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew [syn: fibrous, sinewy, unchewable]

3 forming viscous or glutinous threads [syn: ropy, ropey, thready] [also: stringiest, stringier]

English

Adjective

1. Being comprised of, or bearing a resemblance to that comprised of, string or strings.

   The meat was quite stringy.

Translations

• Italian: fibroso (of meat)

adhesive, amylaceous, besprinkle, capillary, cartilaginous, chewy, cirrose, cirrous, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, cohesive, coriaceous, curdled, doughy, durable, dust, fibered, fibroid, fibrous, flagelliform, flossy, funicular, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, gossamery, gristly, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, hairlike, hairy, hard, hardy, heavy, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, lasting, leatherlike, leathery, ligamental, mucilaginous, pasty, powder, resistant, ropy, silky, sinewy, slabby, slimy, slithery, starchy, sticky, stiff, stodgy, strong, stubborn, syrupy, tacky, taeniate, taeniform, tenacious, thick, thickened, threadlike, thready, tough, tough as leather, tremelloid, tremellose, untiring, vigorous, viscid, viscose, viscous, wiry