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striped (iou)



striped adjective. LME.
[Perh. of Low Dutch origin (cf. Dutch strijpt, Middle Low German striped); later from STRIPE verb2 or noun2: see -ED1, -ED2.]
Marked with a stripe or stripes, having a band or bands of colour, streaked. LME.
blue-striped, green-striped, red-striped, etc.
Of film: having a magnetic stripe. L20.
Special collocations: striped bass a large bass of N. American coastal waters, Roccus saxatilis, with dark horizontal stripes along the upper sides. striped hyena: see HYENA 1a. striped KARANTEEN. striped maple a N. American maple, Acer pensylvanicum, having green bark striped with white. striped mouse any of various African mice of the genera Lemniscomys and Rhabdomys, with a striped back. striped muscle = striated muscle s.v. STRIATED 1. striped pants colloq. = striped trousers below. striped possum any of various possums of the genus Dactylopsila, native to New Guinea and Australia; esp. the black and white D. trivirgata. striped SKAAPSTEKER. striped squill = PUSCHKINIA. striped squirrel a chipmunk or similar striped rodent. striped SURMULLET. striped trousers trousers with a pattern of narrow vertical stripes, esp. as supposedly characteristic of civil servants and businessmen. striped tuna = skipjack tuna s.v. SKIPJACK 3.