midstripe
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A stripe-like marking that runs down the center of a living thing, such as a flower petal or an insect's body.
Example Sentences
- "the flight is sometimes more than 4" broad, the body is 2" long; upper-wings brown with white at the point and the posterior margin, hind-wings rose red with grey brown margin, and three black transverse stripes; abdomen red above with a brown mid-stripe and black rings."
- "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."