striated, ppl. a.
(ˈstraɪeɪtɪd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. a. In scientific use: Marked or characterized by striæ, furrowed, streaked; = striate a. Also fig.
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. ii. 58 Whether these effluviums do flye by streated [sic; 1658 striated] Atomes and winding particles as Renatus des Cartes conceaveth; or [etc.]. 1705 Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1954 This is a deep, thin,..finely striated Shell. 1753 Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Leaf, Striated Leaf, one with a number of longitudinal furrows on its surface. 1871 Darwin Desc. Man II. xvi. 184 Young cross-bills..in their immature striated plumage..resemble the mature redpole. 1923 H. Crane Let. 2 Mar. (1965) 129 Striated with nuances, nervosities, that we are heir to. |
b. In specific names of animals, birds, etc. Also striated ipecacuanha: see ipecacuanha 3.
| 1753 Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Trumpet-shell, The striated buccinum, with oblong tubercles. 1771 Pennant Syn. Quadrupeds 231 Striated Weesel. 1781 ― Hist. Quadrupeds I. 209 Striated Monkey. 1783 Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. i. 142 Striated Grosbeak. 1827 Griffith tr. Cuvier v. 228 Mus Striatus (the Striated Mouse). 1831 J. Davies Man. Mat. Med. 439 Striated ipecacuanha. Psychotria emetica. 1840 Macgillivray Brit. Birds III. 86 Picus striolatus. The Striated Woodpecker. 1845 J. E. Gray Catal. Lizards Brit. Mus. 23 The Striated Spine⁓tail. Acanthopyga striata. |
c. Min. striated fracture (see quot.).
| 1796 Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 35 The Striated Fracture..consists of long narrow separable parts laid on or beside each other. |
d. Of muscle: = striped ppl. a. 1 c.
| 1846 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. iii. 199 When the striated Muscular Fibre is examined still more closely, it is found to contain an assemblage of very minute elements. 1851 Carpenter Man. Phys. (ed. 2) 204 When the striated Muscular Fibre is examined still more closely. 1866 Huxley Physiol. xii. (1872) 291 Muscle is of two kinds striated, or striped, and smooth, plain, or unstriated. 1959 W. Andrew Textbk. Compar. Histol. ii. 48 The muscular tissue in man and other vertebrates is of three chief types: (1) smooth, (2) cardiac, and (3) skeletal. The last two types frequently are referred to as striated because of the cross-striations on the fibers. 1982 [see skeletal a. b]. |
e. Of an electric discharge: exhibiting striæ (sense 2 d).
| 1852 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. CXLII. 100 In a well-exhausted receiver containing a small piece of phosphorus, the discharge is throughout its course striated by transverse non-luminous bands. 1883 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1882 31 A stria, with its attendant dark space, forms a physical unit of a striated discharge. 1942 J. D. Stranathan ‘Particles’ Mod. Physics iii. 71 Small amounts of impurity in the gas affect the striated positive column greatly. 1973 J. Yarwood Electricity & Magnetism xiv. 503 For a striated positive column, the number of ions per unit volume is least at the bright edge of the striation. |
2. Arch. Chamfered, channelled, grooved.
| 1727 Bailey, vol. II. 1771 W. Newton tr. Vitruvius' Archit. iv. iv. (1791) 80 Two columns..one being striated, the other not. 1842 Gwilt Archit. Gloss. |
3. Constituting striæ.
| 1854 Fairholt Dict. Terms Art, Striated, disposed in ornamental lines, either parallel or wavy. 1899 Albutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 608 Little hard papules..secondarily complicated with striated excoriations. |