stringy-bark
noun
Australian any of several eucalyptus trees having a fibrous bark
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How to use stringy-bark in a sentence
I then produced large nets made out of strips of green hide and stringy-bark rope.
The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont | Louis de RougemontIn some places the trees were fine and lofty, in others only stringy-bark or low bushes.
The Gilpins and their Fortunes | William H. G. KingstonOne tree is called the stringy bark, on account of the ragged appearance of its covering at the time it is shed.
The Land of the Kangaroo | Thomas Wallace KnoxA bullet whizzed past my head, and lodged in the trunk of a stringy bark a little further on.
The Book of the Bush | George DunderdaleSo he made a mattress which he stuffed with straw, and he found it much softer than the stringy bark.
The Book of the Bush | George Dunderdale
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