adjective
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marked with striae; striped
verb
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(tr) to mark with striae
Other Word Forms
- multistriate adjective
- substriate adjective
Etymology
Origin of striate
1660–70; < Latin striātus furrowed, fluted, equivalent to stri ( a ) ( stria ) + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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It’s about contemporary Italy, which is also to say that it’s about the divisions of class, region, sex, nationality and ideology that striate the peninsula.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2022
Volume loss affected the gyri, subcortical perisylvian area, insula, and part of the striate nucleus.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
As soon as you start to stir the pot, add in people of different socio-economic backgrounds, sexual orientations, or value systems, the myth of a totally open, flat and transparent organization starts to striate.
From Forbes • Sep. 12, 2013
P. campan.-convex, glabrous, bay, edge striate; g. adnate, very broad behind; s. horny, rigid, shining, blackish bay. canofaciens, Cke.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
Scape more distinctly striate; panicle closely crowded; capsule short-pointed.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
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