Marked with bands or stripes, or grouped together with others for a common purpose.
From the verb 'band,' derived from Middle Dutch 'bant.' Originally meant to fasten with a strip, then evolved to describe things marked with strips, and metaphorically to describe groups united together.
The double meaning is clever—a banded bird (marked with stripes) and a banded group (united together) come from the same root idea of something being 'tied' or 'marked' as a unit. Language loves these semantic overlaps!
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