Definition of Strigate

1. a. Having transverse bands of color.

Definition of Strigate

1. Adjective. (zoology) Having transverse bands of colour. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Strigate

1. marked with streaks [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Strigate

stridulator
stridulators
stridulatory
stridulous
stridulously
strife
strife-ridden
strifeful
strifeless
strifes
strift
strifts
strig
striga
strigae
strigate (current term)
strigged
strigging
strigillose
strigils
strigine
strigments
strigolactone
strigolactones
strigose
strigous
strigs
strike

Literary usage of Strigate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1907)
"... Gn. That species is larger, a brown or raft an laii color, slightly strigate, with prominent discal dots and quite different in ap|>earance. ..."

2. A Monograph of the Jumping Plant-lice: Or Psyllidæ, of the New World by David Livingston Crawford (1914)
"Thorax rather strongly arched, broader than in caudata, strigate. Legs slender. Wings rather narrow, more attenuate at base than usual, broad distally, ..."

3. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1881)
"Hind wings yellow strigate with red except for a space on internal margin before the band, where they are blackish. ..."

4. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1905)
"... and added, " The differences seem obvious enough in my collection. It has the ground colour of primaries lighter, has a peculiar strigate appearance ..."

5. Synopsis of American Wasps by Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure, Edward Norton (1875)
"Clypeus flattened, only delicately punctate-strigate, a little trilobed iu the middle of its inferior margin; metathorax not so much hollowed posteriorly ..."

6. Bulletin by United States National Museum (1889)
"Secondaries dusky, primaries dusky, strigate with white HOI. ... Secondaries white, primaries gray, strigate with white ..."

7. Contribution Toward a Monograph of the Insects of the Lepidopterous Family by John Bernhard Smith (1890)
"Secondaries dusky, primaries dusky, strigate with white ... Secondaries white, primaries gray, strigate with white ..."

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