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striped muscles

striped muscles is the plural of striped muscle.

Meaning of striped muscle

Noun

striped muscle (usually uncountable, plural striped muscles)

  1. (dated, usually) Striated muscle.
    • Although very numerous researches have been made on the differentiation of striped muscles, and on the termination of their motor nerve-fibres, yet the multifarious observations have often been too incomplete to lead to any but conflicting and unsatisfactory theories.1883 December, “Zoology. A. General, including Embryology and Histology of the Vertebrata. Development of Muscle-fibres and their Union with Nerves”, in Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society...

Questions about striped muscles

What is striped muscles the plural of?
Striped muscles is the plural of striped muscle.

Words near striped muscles in the dictionary

  1. striped maple
  2. striped maples
  3. striped marlin
  4. striped marlins
  5. striped muscle
  6. striped muscles
  7. striped owl
  8. striped owls
  9. striped panchax
  10. striped panchaxes
  11. Striped Raphael catfish

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