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a stripe or stripes of contrasting color

a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background

(zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal

a narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy)

any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue

a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)