Stria : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Stria	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stria 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]:
Stria \Stri"a\, n.; pl. {Stri[91]}. [L., a furrow, channel, hollow.] 1. A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the stri[91], or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the stri[91] on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain. 2. (Arch.) A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like. --Oxf. Gloss.