striated

[strahy-ey-tid] / ˈstraɪ eɪ tɪd /

ADJECTIVE

hollow

Synonyms

STRONG

arched cleft cupped curved depressed dimpled excavated indented notched pitted sunken vaulted void

WEAK

alveolate carved out cavernous concave cup-shaped deep-set incurved infundibular not solid troughlike unfilled vacant

Antonyms

WEAK

convex earnest frank full genuine high honest light meaningful raised real sincere soft solid substantial truthful

ADJECTIVE

streaked

Synonyms

STRONG

barred grooved marked ridged striate striped tore variegated veined whelked

WEAK

brindled linear lineate liny pied streaky strigose whelky

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Keepers at the Cornish Birds of Prey Centre CIC said a gyr falcon and a striated caracara were taken between 17:00 GMT on Thursday and 07:00 on Friday.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025

They're calling that large, striated blob Baby Cas A -- because it appears like an offspring of the main supernova.

From Science Daily • Dec. 12, 2023

But travel to the Falkland Islands near the Argentine coast, and you’ll find not parrots or crows but freakishly smart falcons called striated caracaras.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2023

As I watched, he photographed a striated darter that didn't yet have a name, a Yellow Bass, an Orangefin Shiner and a giant crayfish discovered in 2011 in the very creek we were at.

From Scientific American • Oct. 20, 2023

The Cadillac’s tires hummed over its striated surface.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

striated

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