striation

POS

Noun

HYPHEN

stri=a=tion

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun striation has 2 senses

striation(n = noun.shape) stria - any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue; Array

is a kind of channel, groove

Derived form verb striate₁

striation(n = noun.attribute) band, banding, stria - a stripe or stripes of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands"; "the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps"

has particulars: collar, stretch mark

is a kind of bar, streak, stripe

Derived form verb striate₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

striation, n.

The quality or condition of being striated. [1913 Webster]
A stria; as, the striations on a shell. [1913 Webster]

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THESAURUS

striation

band, bar, belt, bezel, chamfer, chase, chink, corrugation, crack, cranny, craze, cross-hatching, cut, dado, dash, delineation, diagonal, dotted line, engraving, flute, fluting, furrow, gash, gouge, groove, hachure, hairline, hatching, incision, line, lineation, list, microgroove, rabbet, rifling, ruck, rut, score, scratch, slash, slit, streak, streaking, stria, striature, striga, striola, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, sulcation, sulcus, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, virgule, well-worn groove, wrinkle

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