Stringy

Her head was surmounted by a huge white chiffon hat, bedecked with three long but rather stringy ostrich feathers.

Tom is such a picky eater that he'll diligently pick the stringy pith from an orange before eating it.

It was tender on the outside and gave the promise of food, but its inside was hard and stringy, and, like the berries, it had no food value.

The meat was quite stringy.

The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.

"I know, I know," said the man who had been addressed as Peeble, a nervous, stringy, dried-up person as he now appeared in the light.

The context refers to how you use an expression. You've actually already seen some contextual operations with numbers and strings. When you do numbery sorts of things, you get numeric results. When you do stringy sorts of things, you get string results.

There are few birders who have not had stringy ticks on their lists at some stage.