stringy-bark

British  

noun

1. any of several eucalyptus trees having a fibrous bark

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Example Sentences

Timber, stringy-bark, iron-bark, gum, etc., with bamboo fifty to sixty feet high on the banks of the river, is abundant, and at convenient distances.

From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by Stuart, John McDouall

Brook had shifted the rails there often before—fifteen years ago—perhaps the selfsame rails, for stringy-bark lasts long; and the action brought the past near to him—nearer than he wished.

From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry

The Melaleuca gum was very frequent in the stringy-bark forest: the Cypress-pine formed either small thickets or occurred scattered.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig

They lie between slightly elevated country of light-brown soil, having stringy-bark and gums, with occasionally a thin scrub abounding in grass.

From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by Stuart, John McDouall

Where the brooding old ridge rises up to the breeze From his dark lonely gullies of stringy-bark trees, There are voice-haunted gaps, ever sullen and strange, But Eurunderee lies like a gem in the range.

From In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses by Lawson, Henry