1) Adjective for some vines 2) Cordlike 3) Fibrous 4) Forming sticky threads 5) Forming strands 6) Forming threads 7) Forming viscid threads 8) Glutinous 9) Hard to chew 10) Like challah dough 11) Like sinew 12) Like some muscles 13) Like stringy threads 14) Like thick twine 15) Like thick vines 16) Like viscid threads 1) Ropey 2) Stringy 3) Thready 
• (a.) capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.
Rop'y adjective capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees. 
[adj] - forming viscous or glutinous threads
ropey adjective of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong