Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as unstriated.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not striped.
  • adjective (Nat. Hist.) Without marks or striations; nonstriated.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not striped.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ striped

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Examples

  • The involuntary from their smooth, regular appearance under the microscope are called the unstriped or non-striated muscles.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • Its head, neck and shoulders and sometimes the forward part of its flank were covered with stripes; the back part of its torso, its rump and legs were unstriped.

    Quagga-breeding Jenny Davidson 2006

  • Sunny Williams with the unstriped suit and they are beginning their six-hour space walk to do some significant re-wiring to the International Space Station.

    CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2006 2006

  • I drive over weeds growing obstinately in the unstriped and roughly paved road, wondering if their presence is a sign of the tenacity of life or of the laxness of county maintenance.

    Between a Rock and a Hard Place Aron Ralston 2004

  • I drive over weeds growing obstinately in the unstriped and roughly paved road, wondering if their presence is a sign of the tenacity of life or of the laxness of county maintenance.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • I drive over weeds growing obstinately in the unstriped and roughly paved road, wondering if their presence is a sign of the tenacity of life or of the laxness of county maintenance.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • I drive over weeds growing obstinately in the unstriped and roughly paved road, wondering if their presence is a sign of the tenacity of life or of the laxness of county maintenance.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • Hence their name of _non-striated_, or _unstriped_, and _smooth_ muscles.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • -- A parasitic fungus attacking wheat, barley, oats, and rye, which is reputed to have the power of causing contraction of unstriped muscular fibre, especially that of the uterus.

    Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

  • These cramps are even more easily induced in the muscular fibre of the viscera -- the unstriped, involuntary muscles -- such as exist in the intestine, bladder, and uterus.

    The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett

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