A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striæ, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striæ on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain.
A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like.
Latin = furrow, applied to a streak or stripe.
L. = a channel, a furrow, a flute in a column.
any fine longitudinal impressed line; in Coleoptera, a longitudinal depressed line or furrow, frequently punctured, extending from the base to the apex of the elytra.
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
a stripe of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands"
a type of stripe, usually consisting of very fine, irregularly spaced parallel lines that are often monochromatic in color.
a streak or stripe, sometimes slightly elevated
A striped effect obtained by loosely twisting two strands of one shade of yarn with one strand of a lighter or darker shade. The single yarn appears like irregular stripes.