stria Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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
    striation.
  2. noun a stripe or stripes of contrasting color
    striation; band; banding.
    • chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands
    • the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps

WordNet

Stri"a noun
Etymology
L., a furrow, channel, hollow.
Wordforms
plural Striæ
Definitions
  1. A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striæ, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striæ 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.

Webster 1913