stringy-bark

British  

noun

1. any of several eucalyptus trees having a fibrous bark

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Example Sentences

Starting in a northerly direction, we passed over some rocky ground, but soon entered into a sandy level, covered with scrubby, stringy-bark forest, intermixed with Melaleuca gum.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig

I asked him if he'd ever got stringy-bark palings or shingles out of mountain ash, and he smiled a smile that did my heart good to see, and said he had.

From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry

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

The Melaleuca gum was very frequent in the stringy-bark forest: the Cypress-pine formed either small thickets or occurred scattered.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig

The timber is chiefly composed of stringy-bark, gum, myall, casurina, pine, and many other descriptions of large timber, all of which will be most useful to new colonists.

From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by Stuart, John McDouall