STRIA

band, banding, stria, striation

(noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color; “chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands”; “the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps”

stria, striation

(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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

stria (plural striae or striæ)

A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes.

(architecture) One of the fillets between the flutes of columns, etc.

A stretch mark.

Anagrams

• ISTAR, Ritsa, Sarti, Stair, airts, arist, astir, sitar, stair, tarsi, tiars, tisar

Source: Wiktionary

Stri"a, n.; pl. Striæ. Etym: [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 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.)

Definition: A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like. Oxf. Gloss.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition