stria
Americannoun
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a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement.
striae of muscle fiber.
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Mineralogy. any of a series of parallel lines or tiny grooves on the surface of a crystal, indicative of the mode of growth.
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Architecture. a flute on the shaft of a column.
noun
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Also called: striation. geology any of the parallel scratches or grooves on the surface of a rock caused by abrasion resulting from the passage of a glacier, motion on a fault surface, etc
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fine ridges and grooves on the surface of a crystal caused by irregular growth
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biology anatomy a narrow band of colour or a ridge, groove, or similar linear mark, usually occurring in a parallel series
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architect a narrow channel, such as a flute on the shaft of a column
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of stria
1555–65; < Latin: furrow, channel
Example Sentences
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One study of the stria terminalis, a region of the brain that influences sex responses and sexual behavior, found that male-to-female transgender people had a female-sized stria terminalis.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2014
A follow-up study found that in male-to-female people, even ones who had never gone through a course of hormone therapy, the number of neurons in the stria terminalis was equivalent to the number in women.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2014
Institia: stria or furrows of equal width throughout.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
Dislocated: a stria, band or line interrupted in continuity, when the tips of the interrupted parts are not in a right line with each other.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
Its relation to the white stria of Gennari is especially interesting, and is recorded by Elliot Smith in the Anatomischer Anzeiger, Bd. xxiv.,
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
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