Synonyms: band, banding, stria, striation
Definition: a stripe or stripes of contrasting color
Usage: chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands; the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps
Similar words: bar, streak, stripe
Definition: a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
Usage: a green toad with small black stripes or bars; may the Stars and Stripes forever wave
Definition: 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
Similar words: channel, groove
Definition: a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)