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Stria

noun

(pl. striae)

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: striation.

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

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... under cover of our guns to the south and east, the Alpini streamed down from the Cima di Falzarego and Sasso di Stria, which they had occupied shortly before, and secured what was at first but a precarious foothold on the stony lower eastern slope of the Col di Lana. Indeed, it was little more than a toe-hold at first; but the never-resting Alpini soon dug themselves in and ...

— World's War Events, Vol. II • Various

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... the ductus cochlearis of the dancer the stria vasculosa is almost or totally lacking, while in the gray mouse it is prominent. This condition of the stria vasculosa Kishi was the first to notice in the dancer; Alexander and Kreidl had previously described ...

— The Dancing Mouse - A Study in Animal Behavior • Robert M. Yerkes

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... specimens of Larinus Onopordinis. The freshest specimens have the griseous margin of the elytra, which parts from the base under the shoulder, obliquely and angularly ampliate interiorly towards the middle, where it reaches the second stria. This griseous pilosity fills all the tips of the elytra, leaving bare only the sutures, an angular notch behind the middle (which forms with that apical part of the suture a kind of hook on each elytron), and ...

— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various

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