striation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: stri=a=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

striation, n. 

•  The quality or condition of being striated.  [1913 Webster]
•  A stria; as, the striations on a shell.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

striation

band, bar, belt, bezel, chamfer, chase, chink, corrugation, crack, cranny, craze, cross-hatching, cut, dado, dash, delineation, diagonal, dotted line, engraving, flute, fluting, furrow, gash, gouge, groove, hachure, hairline, hatching, incision, line, lineation, list, microgroove, rabbet, rifling, ruck, rut, score, scratch, slash, slit, streak, streaking, stria, striature, striga, striola, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, sulcation, sulcus, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, virgule, well-worn groove, wrinkle