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Striation   Listen
noun
Striation  n.  
1.
The quality or condition of being striated.
2.
A stria; as, the striations on a shell.





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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
... 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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