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Definition of Streaked
1. Adjective. Marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations. "Fat legs and dirty streaky faces"
Definition of Streaked
1. a. Marked or variegated with stripes.
Definition of Streaked
1. Adjective. Bearing streaks. ¹
2. Adjective. Marred with streaks. ¹
3. Adjective. (US dialect dated) uncomfortable; out of sorts. ¹
4. Verb. (past of ''streak'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Streaked
1. streak [v] - See also: streak
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Streaked
Literary usage of Streaked
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1. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"Parallel banded or streaked character refers to any structure or surface marking
... Massive character may be regarded as the opposite of banded or streaked ..."
2. Key to North American Birds: Containing a Concise Account of Every Species by Elliott Coues (1872)
"Conspicuously streaked below; crown plum, or with 2 blank stripes, ... ACTS 58 —
streaked or not •. with some yellow, but no red, ..."
3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"Above olive-green, varied with brown; head brown, white-streaked; ... Above
olive-green, beneath paler, black-streaked; quills and tail pale-brown; ..."
4. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1902)
"Adults in summer : upper parts buffy and gray, broadly streaked on crown and back
... Adults in winter : upper parts, streaked witli dusky ; faint line over ..."
5. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1921)
"Adults in summer: upper parts buffy and gray, broadly streaked on crown and back
... Adults in winter: plain grayish brown, obscurely streaked with dusky; ..."
6. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"Amy Lowell possesses Yellow leaves streaked with brown. without any clear
understanding of ... In addition there is no 15 And yellow streaked with brown. ..."
7. Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio by Geological Survey of Ohio (1882)
"3 Breeding here and southward : Both sexes streaked above and below - Female
streaked above and below Both sexes streaked above 5 ..."
8. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"ochraceous-buff markings on the primaries, and the continuously streaked underparts ;
from the latter they differ in having four instead of three outer ..."
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