[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

striation \stria"tion\, n.
   1. the quality or condition of being striated.
      1913 webster

   2. a stria; as, the striations on a shell.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

striation
     n 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 syn: stria
     2: a stripe of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit
        characteristic bands" syn: band, stria
see also:
stria band 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

61 moby thesaurus words for "striation":
   band, bar, belt, bezel, chamfer, chase, chink, corrugation, crack,
   cranny, craze, cross-hatching, cut, dado, dash, delineation,
   diagonal, dotted line, engraving, flute, fluting, furrow, gash,
   gouge, groove, hachure, hairline, hatching, incision, line,
   lineation, list, microgroove, rabbet, rifling, ruck, rut, score,
   scratch, slash, slit, streak, streaking, stria, striature, striga,
   striola, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, sulcation,
   sulcus, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, virgule,
   well-worn groove, wrinkle

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