stria

stria is a 5-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striae, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striae on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 5 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striae, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striae on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain.
2. noun. A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like.
3. noun. a stripe or stripes of contrasting color

   "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands"

   "the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps"

   Synonyms: band, banding, striation

4. noun. 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

   Synonyms: striation

Synonyms

band, banding, striation

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stria:

airts, arist, astir, sitar, stair, tarsi, tisar, trias

Common word forms

striation

Words from these letters

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