Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not striate; unstriped, as muscular fiber. See
fiber .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Nat. Hist.) Without striations; unstriped.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
striated .
Etymologies
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non- + striated
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Examples
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It is the best of all gymnastics for the nonstriated or involuntary muscles and for the heart and blood vessels.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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The middle coat, tunica media, is elastic, dense, and of a yellow color, consisting of nonstriated muscular and elastic fibers, thickest in the largest arteries and becoming thinner in the smaller.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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