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  • past tense form of ray.
  • past participle of ray.

rayed

American  
[reyd] / reɪd /

adjective

  1. having or represented as having emanating rays; radiate.

    The saint was painted with a rayed, beatific face.

  2. having zoological or botanical rays (often used in combination).

    a five-rayed fin.


Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of rayed

First recorded in 1740–50; ray 1 + -ed 3

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The initiative seeks to restore the rayed bean mussel, which has not been found in Kentucky waters in more than 40 years.

From Washington Times Sep. 15, 2020

Some of the brighter craters are rayed, like Tycho and Copernicus on the Moon, and many have central peaks.

From Textbooks Oct. 13, 2016

Instead, our results imply that derived colour-pattern elements have introgressed recently between both rayed and postman forms of and .

From Nature Jul. 4, 2012

For a reciprocal test, we used the same H. melpomene races as the ingroup to compare with rayed Heliconius timareta florencia at the B/D region.

From Nature Jul. 4, 2012

The same plan has been adopted by the moderns, who have varied the symbol by representing it now as a golden disc, now as a terrestrial orb, again as a rayed sphere.

From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Thomas Inman

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