Lean and sinewy.

synonym: stringy.

Roget 159: strong, mighty, vigorous, forcible, hard, adamantine, stout, robust, sturdy, hardy, powerful, potent, puissant, valid.    resistless, irresistible, invincible, proof against, impregnable, unconquerable, indomitable, dominating, inextinguishable, unquenchable; incontestable; more than a match for; overpowering, overwhelming; all powerful, all sufficient; sovereign.    able-bodied; athletic; Herculean, Cyclopean, Atlantean^†; muscular, brawny, wiry, well-knit, broad-shouldered, sinewy, strapping, stalwart, gigantic.    manly, man-like, manful; masculine, male, virile.    unweakened^†, unallayed, unwithered^†, unshaken, unworn, unexhausted^†; in full force, in full swing; in the plenitude of power.    stubborn, thick-ribbed, made of iron, deep-rooted; strong as a lion, strong as a horse, strong as an ox, strong as brandy; sound as a roach; in fine feather, in high feather; built like a brick shithouse; like a giant refreshed.    ... show more

Roget 205: filamentous, filamentiferous^†, filaceous^†, filiform^†; fibrous, fibrillous^†; thread-like, wiry, stringy, ropy; capillary, capilliform^†; funicular, wire-drawn; anguilliform^†; flagelliform^†; hairy etc. (rough) 256; taeniate^†, taeniform^†, taenioid^†; venose^†, venous.    ... show more

Of or relating to wire.

Polish: druciany

Of hair that resembles wire in stiffness.