stringy-bark

British  

noun

1. any of several eucalyptus trees having a fibrous bark

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Example Sentences

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 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 pigs and geese were in the hut, the hen on the table flew, And she laid an egg in the old tin plate for the stringy-bark cockatoo.

From The Old Bush Songs by Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton)

Chorus Oh, the stringy-bark cockatoo, Oh, the stringy-bark cockatoo, I got a job of reaping off a stringy-bark cockatoo.

From The Old Bush Songs by Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton)

He made a spring for the back of the hut and through it, taking down a large new sheet of stringy-bark in his flight.

From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry