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stria |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stria \Stri"a\, n.; pl {Stri[ae]}. [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[ae], or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it the stri[ae] 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: stria 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: {striation}] 2: a stripe of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands" [syn: {band}, {striation}]
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