midstripe

noun

Etymology

From mid- + stripe.

  1. derived from *strīpô
  2. derived from *strīpā
  3. derived from strîpe
  4. inherited from stripe
  5. formed as midstripe — “mid- + stripe

Definitions

  1. A stripe-like marking that runs down the center of a living thing, such as a flower petal…

    A stripe-like marking that runs down the center of a living thing, such as a flower petal or an insect's body.

    • Female.— Very similar to male, the front broad with a semishining midstripe connecting the shiny black antennal prominence with the opaque black of the ocellar area; pile of the black areas black, becoming brown below.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for midstripe. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA