Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Stringy \String"y\, a.
   1. Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous;
      filamentous; as, a stringy root.

   2. Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous
      substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.

   {Stringy bark} (Bot.), a name given in Australia to several
      trees of the genus Eucalyptus (as {E. amygdalina, obliqua,
      capitellata, macrorhyncha, piperita, pilularis, &
      tetradonta}), which have a fibrous bark used by the
      aborigines for making cordage and cloth.

Source : WordNet®

stringy
     adj 1: lean and sinewy [syn: {wiry}]
     2: (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
        [syn: {fibrous}, {sinewy}, {unchewable}]
     3: forming viscous or glutinous threads [syn: {ropy}, {ropey},
        {thready}]
     [also: {stringiest}, {stringier}]