tiger stripes

See also: tigerstripe

English

a locomotive painted with tiger stripes

Saturn's moon Enceladus with tiger stripes visible near the south pole

Noun

tiger stripes pl (plural 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.Wikipedia