greenstriped

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A form of green-striped — Decorated, marked or patterned with green stripes.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivegreenstriped (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of green-striped.

    Unlike Florida's other bandwinged species, southern greenstriped grasshopper lacks a bold, black band crossing the hind wing.

    2001, John L. Capinera, Clay W. Scherer, Jason M. Squitier, Grasshoppers of Florida, Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, →ISBN, page 64
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    Deterioration in a maple syrup production area in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia was related to previous defoliation by greenstriped mapleworm and whitemarked tussock moth and the presence of sugar maple borer (185 of the trees in the stand infested).

    1988, Forest Insect and Disease Conditions in Canada, 1987, Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Forestry Service, Forest Insect and Disease Survey, →ISBN, page 33

    By the 1880s, as recorded by David Starr Jordan, these included the aforementioned treefish, along with pesce vermiglia for greenspotted rockfish, corsair (a Portuguese-Azorean word of unknown origin) for rosy rockfish, spotted corsair for starry rockfish, and reina (Portuguese for queen) for greenstriped rockfish.

    2002, Lyman K. Thorsteinson, Mary Yoklavich, Milton S. Love, The Rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 12
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APA

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MLA

“greenstriped.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/greenstriped. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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