striation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: striation	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for striation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
striation n 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 Synonym(s): stria, striation a stripe or stripes of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands"; "the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps" Synonym(s): band, banding, stria, striation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Striation \Stri*a"tion\, n. 1. The quality or condition of being striated. 2. A stria; as, the striations on a shell.