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stringy-bark

noun

  1. any of several eucalyptus trees having a fibrous bark


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I then produced large nets made out of strips of green hide and stringy-bark rope.

In some places the trees were fine and lofty, in others only stringy-bark or low bushes.

One tree is called the stringy bark, on account of the ragged appearance of its covering at the time it is shed.

A bullet whizzed past my head, and lodged in the trunk of a stringy bark a little further on.

So he made a mattress which he stuffed with straw, and he found it much softer than the stringy bark.

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