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.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            Latin = furrow, applied to a streak or stripe.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                                                     
                        
                        
                            L. = a channel, a furrow, a flute in a column.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            any fine longitudinal impressed line; in Coleoptera, a longitudinal depressed line or furrow, frequently punctured, extending from the base to the apex of the elytra.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            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 
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            a stripe of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands" 
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            a type of stripe, usually consisting of very fine, irregularly spaced parallel lines that are often monochromatic in color.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            a streak or stripe, sometimes slightly elevated
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            A striped effect obtained by loosely twisting two strands of one shade of yarn with one strand of a lighter or darker shade. The single yarn appears like irregular stripes.