Word Meanings - STRIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like. Oxf. Gloss. (more info) 1. 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

Additional info about word: STRIA

A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like. Oxf. Gloss. (more info) 1. 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.

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• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• GLOSSA
  The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
• GLOSSIST
  A writer of comments. Milton.
• GLOSSOLOGY
  1. The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary. 2. The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology.
• GLOSSARIAL
  Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary.
• GLOSSOLOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossology.
• STRIATION
  1. The quality or condition of being striated. 2. A stria; as, the striations on a shell.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• GLOSSOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossography.
• GLOSSANTHRAX
  A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.
• FILLETING
  The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• COLORADO BEETLE
  A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• COLORADOITE
  Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
• PRODUCTUS
  An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
• GLOSSOLOGIST
  One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
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• GYMNOGLOSSA
  A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• SACCOGLOSSA
  See PELLIBRANCHIATA