striate

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From Latin striatum, past participle of strio (“to groove”).

It was quite healed, but curiously striated for an inch or so around. — The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, Sax Rohmer
There was also a queer triangular, striated marking, about a foot in greatest diameter, which Lake pieced together from three fragments of slate brought up from a deep-blasted aperture. — At the mountains of madness, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
Their height, as we approached them, seemed to me in some places to be greater than he had stated--running up in parts to at least a thousand feet--and they were curiously striated, in a manner which is, I believe, characteristic of basaltic upheavals. — The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle

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