stringy-bark
Britishnoun
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Timber, stringy-bark, iron-bark, gum, etc., with bamboo fifty to sixty feet high on the banks of the river, is abundant, and at convenient distances.
From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by Stuart, John McDouall
Roaming about the country, looking for some work to do, I got a job of reaping off a stringy-bark cockatoo.
From The Old Bush Songs by Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton)
The timber is stringy-bark, some splendid trees; amongst them gums and a number of pines, also very fine.
From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by Stuart, John McDouall
The country to this is good, with occasionally a little ironstone and gravel, timber of stringy-bark, and a little low gum scrub.
From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by Stuart, John McDouall
Oh, the pigs and geese were in the wheat of the stringy-bark cockatoo.
From The Old Bush Songs by Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton)
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