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STRIATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stripe or stripes of contrasting color
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 ("striation" 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 "striation"):
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 tissue
Synonyms:
stria; striation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("striation" 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)
