stria

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a narrow stripe, streak, or band, especially one of a parallel series in tissue, plumage, or another patterned surface

   A pale stria ran along the otherwise dark feather.

2. 2
   noun

   a fine groove, ridge, scratch, or channel, especially one of several parallel marks in rock, crystal, or biological tissue

   The geologist measured a glacial stria scratched into the exposed bedrock.

3. 3
   noun

   architecture: a narrow channel or fillet associated with the fluting of a column

   Each stria between the column's flutes remained sharply defined after cleaning.

Borrowed from Latin stria, 'furrow, channel, or flute of a column.' Scientific English extended the word to narrow parallel marks and bands in anatomy, zoology, geology, mineralogy, and other fields.

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