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名詞

tiger stripes pl (複数形 only)

1. plural of tiger stripe
2. Any of various color patterns featuring stripes, usually including a yellow or orange color.
   • 2023 June 28, Mitchell Toy, “History of Victorian railways included Buick and Dodge sedans”, in Herald Sun, Melbourne:

     To improve visibility the cars were painted up in yellow and black ‘tiger stripes’, making them a recognisable mainstay on Victoria’s rails.

   • 2023 July 3, “Lifestyle Reviews”, in Publishers Weekly, “Art of Custom Sneakers” [review]:

     [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.”

3. (biology, agriculture) A pattern of brown stripes on leaves caused by fungal or other microbial infection.
   • 2022, Laura Martín, Blanca García-García, María del Mar Alguacil, “Interaction of the fungal community in the complex patho-system of Esca, a grapevine trunk disease”, in International Journal of Molecular Sciences, volume 23:

     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.

   • 2023, Franceso Calzarano, Carmine Amalfitano, Leonardo Seghetti, Stefano Di Marco, “Effect of Different Foliar Fertilizer Applications on Esca Disease of Grapevine”, in Agronomy, volume 13, number 5:

     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.

4. (astronomy) A series of four parallel depressions on the surface of Enceladus, a moon orbiting Saturn.
   • 2023 April, N. Khawaja, T. R. O’Sullivan, F. Klenner, L.H. Sanchez, J. Hillier, “Discriminating Aromatic Parent Compounds and Their Derivative Isomers in Ice Grains From Enceladus and Europa Using a Laboratory Analogue for Spaceborne Mass Spectrometers”, in Earth and Space Science, volume 10, number 4, →DOI:

     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.

   • 2023, Francisco Calapez, Rodrigo Dias, Rute Cesário, Diogo Gonçalves, Bruno Pedras, et al., “Spectroscopic Detection of Biosignatures in Natural Ice Samples as a Proxy for Icy Moons”, in Life, volume 13, number 2, Basel, →DOI, page 478:

     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].

5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tiger,‎ stripes.

Further reading

• Tiger stripes (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.