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176 words match “STRIA”

STRIA n. 2 definitions
e 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.
STRIATE v.
To mark with striaæ. "Striated longitudinally." Owen.
STRIATE; STRIATED a.
Marked with striaæ, or fine grooves, or lines of color; showing narrow structural bands or lines; as, a striated crystal; striated muscular fiber.
STRIATION n. 2 definitions
The quality or condition of being striated.
STRIATUM n.
The corpus striatum.
STRIATURE n.
A stria.
ALABASTRIAN a.
Alabastrine.
AUSTRIAN a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants. -- n.
BIMESTRIAL a.
Continuing two months. [R.]
CAMPESTRAL; CAMPESTRIAN a.
Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground.
EPIGASTRIAL a.
Epigastric.
EQUESTRIAN a. 4 definitions
Of or pertaining to horses or horsemen, or to horsemanship; as, equestrian feats, or games.
EQUESTRIANISM n.
The art of riding on horseback; performance on horseback; horsemanship; as, feats equestrianism.
INDUSTRIAL a.
, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights. The great ideas of industrial development and economic social amelioration. M. Arnold.
INDUSTRIALISM n. 2 definitions
Devotion to industrial pursuits; labor; industry. J. S. Mill.
INDUSTRIALLY adv.
With reference to industry.
MISTRIAL n.
A false or erroneous trial; a trial which has no result.
MULTISTRIATE a.
Having many streaks.
NONSTRIATED a.
Without striations; unstriped; as, nonstriated muscle fibers.
OESTRIAN a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to the gadflies. -- n.
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