stringy-bark

British  

noun

1. any of several eucalyptus trees having a fibrous bark

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stringy-bark

Blue gum, red gum, grey gum, stringy-bark, iron-bark, and black-butt; the trees which surrounded Jess for fifty miles on every side were practically all of the eucalyptus family.

From Finn The Wolfhound by Buxton, Robert Hugh

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)

The two-roomed house is built of round timber, slabs, and stringy-bark, and floored with split slabs.

From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry

To the north-west of it, we rode through a succession of scrubby and open stringy-bark forest of tea-tree flats and thickets, and over long tracts of stringy-bark saplings which had been recently burned.

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 grass in, and on the banks of, this creek is six feet high; to the westward there are long reaches of water, and the creek very thickly timbered with melaleuca, gum, stringy-bark, and palms.

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