stringiness

[Eng. stringy: -ne .] The quality or state of being stringy; fibrousne . string-le , a. [Eng. string; -le .] Having no strings. "His tongue is now a stringle instrument." Shakesp.: Richard II ., ii. 1. str in-go-çěph-a-lus, strig-o-çěph-a-lus, s . [Gr. strix (gen it. strigos ) [STRIX], and kephale =the head.] Palæont .: A genus of Terebratulidæ. Shell punctate, suborbicular, with a prominent beak. Stringocephalus burton i is found in the Middle Devonian. There is a Stringocephalus schist and a Stringocephalus limestone in the Devonian of Germany. The latter occurs also in the same formation in Devons hire. str in-gop-1-dæ, s . pl . [Mod. Lat. stringop (s); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -idœ .] Ornith.: A family of Reichenow's Psittaci, of the same extent as String opine (q. v.).