striated

• To our vision, the KiAn Working Party was striated orange/yellow, nice cheerful implications, nothing too deep. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
• Ejector marks can be either striated or impressed but the impressed ejector marks not only can be used to identify a cartridge case as having passed through a firearm's action they can also be an indication that the cartridge case was fired in the firearm.Ejector marks can only be produced when the cartridge cases were fired in the firearm and not by simply hand chambering and ejecting a live cartridge. —  28_EvidenceCollectionAtCrimeScenes
• Out the window the clouds were stretched and striated, not enough to cover the snow-scarred ground beneath us. —  Land of the Blind by Jess Walter
• The gneiss is often striated, all the striae looking one way—sometimes north and south, and at other times east and west. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I
• A short cylindroidal form of cell makes up columnar epithelium, seen typically in the cells covering the villi of the duodenum (Figure V This epithelium of the villi has the outer border curiously striated, and this is usually spoken of as leading towards "ciliated" epithelium, to be described immediately. —  Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata

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