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Striation   Listen
Striation

noun
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.  Synonym: stria.
2.
A stripe or stripes of contrasting color.  Synonyms: band, banding, stria.  "The black and yellow banding of bees and wasps"





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"Striation" Quotes from Famous Books



... scientific to repeat a quotation from a political speech correctly, or to pass on a story undistorted, than it is to know of the rings of Saturn or the striation of diatoms. ...
— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks


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