Hypertext Webster Gateway: "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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
striation
n 1: 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 [syn: {stria}]
2: a stripe of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit
characteristic bands" [syn: {band}, {stria}]
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