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striae

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 [syn: striation ] a stripe of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands" [syn: band , striation ] ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in 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 ...

Usage examples of striae.

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.