Crossword clues for stria
stria
- Muscle fiber furrow, e.g
- Long, narrow groove
- Thin narrow groove
- Record groove, e.g
- Scratches left on a rock
- Rock groove
- Parallel grooves
- It's groovy
- Anatomical furrow
- Threadlike line
- Thin, narrow groove
- Thin line or band
- Thin groove
- Stripe of contrasting color
- Stretch mark, say
- Narrow stripe
- Muscle-fiber furrow
- Muscle fiber
- Liny marking
- Line on a crystal
- Fine streak or furrow
- Architectural groove
- Small groove
- Narrow furrow
- Architectural flute
- Narrow groove
- Minute groove
- Tiny grooves
- 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
- A stripe of contrasting color
- Groove
- Slight furrow
- Fine groove
- Thin grooves
- Furrow; ridge
- Pilaster fillet
- Narrow channel
- Layer
- Narrow band or channel
- Threadlike groove
- Fine line
- Narrow streak
- Narrow ridge
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stria \Stri"a\, n.; pl. Stri[ae]. [L., a furrow, channel, hollow.]
A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the stri[ae], or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the stri[ae] on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain.
(Arch.) A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like.
--Oxf. Gloss.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
plural striae, "narrow stripe, groove," 1560s, from Latin stria "a furrow, flute of a column" (see striate).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes. 2 A stretch mark.
WordNet
Usage examples of "stria".
Spigelia Marilandica 314 Spinal Column 24 Spinal Cord 25, 90 Spinal Cord, Reflex Action of the 93 Spinal Curvature, Posterior 898 Spinal Nerves 89 Spirit Vapor-bath 362 Spirometer 391, 392 Spleen 44 Sponge Bath 365 Sprains 892 Squaw-root 305 Stapes 110 Static Electrical Machine 629 Sterility 707 Sternum 23 Stethoscope 391 Stimulants 348 Stomach 39, 52 Stomach, Inflammation of the 882, 884 Stomach, Neuralgia of the 885 Stomatitis 553 Stomatitis Materna 554 Stone in the Bladder 838 Stone-pock 442 Stone-root 337 Story of Sexual Abuse 394 Stramonium 344 Striae 31 Stricture of the Urethra 775, 843 Strumous Diathesis 445 Strumous Synovius 453 St.
Rough scribbles suggesting engines, red lines of force and striae of rock types crosshatched in ink.
The bit on the moss swarmed with infusoria, and was so much decayed that the transverse striae on the muscular fibres could no longer be clearly distinguished.
In the central part the transverse striae on the muscular fibres were quite distinct.
They disappeared by the striae being replaced by transverse lines formed of excessively minute dark points, which towards the exterior could be seen only under a very high power.
They filled some of the big furnaces and left others half empty, encased them, metal air bubbles in the striae of marl and chalk.
The appearance presented by these radicles after the seven days was very curious, for the black grease had been drawn out into the finest longitudinal striae, with dots and reticulations, which covered their surfaces for a length of from 26 to 44 mm.
Fortunately, the deep striae or furrows in the surface of the rocks that made the bottom of the ravine in some degree facilitated their progress, but it was not until they had been toiling up for two hours more that they succeeded in reaching the summit of the cliff.