STRIPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does striped mean? 

• STRIPED (adjective)
  The adjective STRIPED has 1 sense:

1. marked or decorated with stripes

  Familiarity information: STRIPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRIPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked or decorated with stripes

Synonyms:

striped; stripy

Similar:

patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))

 Context examples 

She had on a red cloak and a black bonnet: or rather, a broad- brimmed gipsy hat, tied down with a striped handkerchief under her chin.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They then equipped horses with both zebra-striped and unstriped cloths and again observed that the flies had trouble landing on the striped surfaces.

(Zebra stripes may 'dazzle' pathogen-packing horse flies, Wikinews)

Striped gray and white matter consisting of the neostriatum and paleostriatum (globus pallidus).

(Corpus Striatum, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The study found that 54 percent of striped maple trees changed mating type over a four-year period, with some switching multiple times.

(Striped maple trees often change mating types, with females more likely to die, National Science Foundation)

“And whom have I to thank for this kindness?” I asked, when I stood completely arrayed, a tiny boy’s cap on my head, and for coat a dirty, striped cotton jacket which ended at the small of my back and the sleeves of which reached just below my elbows.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The company was completed by a peasant in a rude dress of undyed sheepskin, with the old-fashioned galligaskins about his legs, and a gayly dressed young man with striped cloak jagged at the edges and parti-colored hosen, who looked about him with high disdain upon his face, and held a blue smelling-flask to his nose with one hand, while he brandished a busy spoon with the other.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was very cleanly dressed, in a blue coat, striped waistcoat, and nankeen trousers; and his fine frilled shirt and cambric neckcloth looked unusually soft and white, reminding my strolling fancy (I call to mind) of the plumage on the breast of a swan.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Researchers found that striped maple trees can switch from male to female or female to male from year to year.

(Striped maple trees often change mating types, with females more likely to die, National Science Foundation)

Understory trees such as striped maples grow beneath the forest canopy and may become unhealthy for many reasons: insects chew on them, deer use them for antler rubs, large trees fall on them during storms, and drought can affect them.

(Striped maple trees often change mating types, with females more likely to die, National Science Foundation)