medullary ray

noun Botany.

(in the stems of woody plants) one of the vertical bands or plates of unspecialized tissue that radiate between the pith and the bark.

Origin of medullary ray

First recorded in 1820–30

Also called pith ray.

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British Dictionary definitions for medullary ray

medullary ray

noun

any of the sheets of conducting tissue that run radially through the vascular tissue of some higher plants

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medullary ray in Medicine

medullary ray

The center of the renal, cortical lobule, consisting of the ascending or descending limbs of the nephronic loop or of the collecting tubules.Ferrein's pyramid