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English to English noun
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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: wordnet30
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a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | | Example: chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands
the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps
source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
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