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    STRIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected form: striae  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A stripe or stripes of contrasting colorplay

    Example:

    the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps

    Synonyms:

    band; banding; stria; striation

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("stria" is a kind of...):

    bar; streak; stripe (a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stria"):

    collar ((zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal)

    stretch mark (a narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy))

    Derivation:

    striate (mark with striae or striations)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    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 tissueplay

    Synonyms:

    stria; striation

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

    Hypernyms ("stria" is a kind of...):

    channel; groove (a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record))

    Derivation:

    striate (mark with striae or striations)

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