striate

[strahy-eyt, strahy-it, -eyt]

verb (used with object)

striated, striating 

1. to mark with striae; furrow; stripe; streak.

adjective

1. striated.

striate

adjective

1. marked with striae; striped

verb

1. (tr) to mark with striae

Other Word Forms

• multistriate adjective
• substriate adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of striate¹

1660–70; < Latin striātus furrowed, fluted, equivalent to stri ( a ) ( stria ) + -ātus -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of striate¹

C17: from Latin striāre to make grooves, from _stria

Example Sentences

Visitors come to explore the Taroko Gorge, a striated marble canyon carved by the Liwu River, which cuts through mountains that rise steeply from the coast.

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Made of clay, it was wedged above a human skull and surrounded by fragments of a striated wig.

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But travel to the Falkland Islands near the Argentine coast, and you’ll find not parrots or crows but freakishly smart falcons called striated caracaras.

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As I watched, he photographed a striated darter that didn't yet have a name, a Yellow Bass, an Orangefin Shiner and a giant crayfish discovered in 2011 in the very creek we were at.

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The brown striated cliffs, the Seven Devils to the southeast and coffee-colored mounds closer to the bottom provided a beautiful vista.

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