Origin: Latin
suffix -tion
Striation has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
Noun
Noun
1
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
2
a stripe or stripes of contrasting color
"chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands"
"the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps"
3
One of a number of parallel grooves and ridges in a rock or rocky deposit, formed by repeated twinning or cleaving of crystals.
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