tiger stripes
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
A series of four parallel depressions on the surface of Enceladus, a moon orbiting Saturn.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tiger, stripes.
Example Sentences
- "To improve visibility the cars were painted up in yellow and black ‘tiger stripes’, making them a recognisable mainstay on Victoria’s rails."
- "[Kickz] notes that readers can “draw” with paint pens and shows how to use them to make a tricolor camo design or a Pac-Man–inspired maze on black high tops. He also walks through how to add acrylic paint tiger stripes and create a “cartoon” effect by applying white and black lines “near the stitching in different areas of the shoe.”"
- "At the time of ripening, leaves of Esca-affected vines show an interveinal necrosis, known as “tiger stripes”, also called Grapevine Leaf Stripe Disease (GLSD), causing the drying of grape clusters, and, thus, affecting grape quality and composition."
- "The typical foliar symptoms of the disease may appear on the foliage as tiger stripes, while the berries can show purple spots, cracks and drying up."
- "A plume, consisting of many individual jets, expels subsurface material originating from the ocean from four parallel fractures, the so-called tiger stripes, located in the south polar terrain."
- "This moon is the main source of material for Saturn’s E ring, due to the 100 km sized plumes emanating from its south pole, ejecting water ice and water vapour [54,62]. This is released from aligned vent structures, named tiger stripes, that are fed by a subsurface ocean that experiences ongoing hydrothermal interaction with a silicate core as shown in Figure 1 [63]."