[ad. L. striātūra (Vitruv.) f. L. stria (see STRIA).] Disposition of striæ, striation; also, one of a set of striæ.
1728. Woodward, Nat. Hist. Fossils, I. I. 230. Hæmatitæ shewing several Varieties in the Crusts, Striature, Texture, and Constitution of this Body.
1771. W. Newton, trans. Vitruvius’ Archit., IV. iii. (1791), 78. Thus the Doric column will have its proper kind of striature.
1846. Dana, Zooph. (1848), 374. The exterior striatures of the calicles.
