stringybark
nounEtymology From stringy + bark.
1
Any of a number of Australian eucalyptus trees with fibrous bark, or the wood or bark of such trees.
- Two of the younger men carried him there on a stretcher of stringybark.1974, Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Text Classics, published 2018, page 54:
- Derived terms
- blue-leaved stringybark, brown stringybark, mealy stringybark, messmate stringybark, privet-leaved stringybark, red stringybark, stringybark pine, Tindale's stringybark, yellow stringybark, thin-leaved stringybark, white stringybark, Wollemi stringybark, Stringybark, narrow-leaved stringybark