stringybark

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Etymology

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From stringy +‎ bark.

Noun

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stringybark (plural stringybarks)

  1. Any of a number of Australian eucalyptus trees with fibrous bark, or the wood or bark of such trees.
    • 1974, Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Text Classics, published 2018, page 54:
      Two of the younger men carried him there on a stretcher of stringybark.

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