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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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... in the last of the series (v), where the shallow cup is seen in partial section. The electric plate lines the concavity of the cup, and is richly supplied with nerves (only a few of which are represented in the last drawing); the thick walls of the cup are composed of muscular fibres, the striation of ...
— Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) • George John Romanes


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