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: WordNet 3.0
a stripe or stripes of contrasting color
Chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands. The black and yellow banding of bees and wasps.
source: WordNet 3.0
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.
