stringybark

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Etymology

stringy +‎ bark

Noun

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 2018, p. 54:
      Two of the younger men carried him there on a stretcher of stringybark.

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