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What does stringy mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word stringy? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
  2. (of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.
  3. (programming) Resembling or involving text strings.
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Once rhubarb becomes thick and turns that greeny colour, it is stringy and loses the sharp, bright flavour that heralds the spring.
Most, actually, were barefoot and clad only in cotton hospital gowns, their stringy hair clinging lankly to their foreheads.
I also have an increasing problem with black stringy flossy stuff appearing.
My hair was limp, stringy, greasy, and frizzed from all the dyeing I did to it.
Inside, when you halve them and flip the skin inside out to eat it, the sumptuous orange flesh is neither watery nor stringy.
He was gaunt, his blond hair gone stringy, and his greasy tux fit the dress code only under the most generous interpretation.

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