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white-streaked

white-streaked

3.4
Having thin white lines on a surface, for example feathers or stone
  • adjective
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  • A woman with white-streaked hair cut like a man's, speaking the usual badly accented Afrikaans of English-speaking townspeople, introduced herself there on the stoep as.
  • white-streaked hair

Examples

  • She's a short pear-shaped woman with dark skin and white-streaked black hair tied back into a braided ponytail between her shoulders.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • The artist painted a beautiful landscape featuring a sky with white-streaked clouds.

  • Her white-streaked sweater contrasted nicely against the dark blue jeans she wore.

  • The bird had white-streaked feathers that made it stand out among the other colorful species.

Antonyms

1 3.4

Having one color with no pattern

How Streaked

striped
9 1.0
white-streaked
3.4
veined
4.4
unmarked
43 4.3

Surface Forms

white-streaked positive

Morphology

white-streaked = white + streaked (transparent) = white + streak + ed

The compound combines the colour 'white' with 'streaked' (marked with streaks), a directly predictable meaning.

Etymology

White-streaked comes from the words white and streak. White is the color and streak means a 'long thin mark', like a streak of lightning or a streak in hair. So something white-streaked has long thin lines of white, which makes it easy to picture marble, wings, or cloth with bright lines.