stringy-bark


noun
  1. 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.

  • In some places the trees were fine and lofty, in others only stringy-bark or low bushes.

    The Gilpins and their Fortunes | William H. G. Kingston
  • One 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 Knox
  • A bullet whizzed past my head, and lodged in the trunk of a stringy bark a little further on.

    The Book of the Bush | George Dunderdale
  • So 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