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.

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Other Word Forms

• unrayed adjective

Etymology

Origin of rayed

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

Example Sentences

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 standing eagle of the 1807 mint design with Federal shield, the panoply of arms and colors, and the rayed background all suggest that this plate was made not later than the early 1820's.

From American Military Insignia 1800-1851 by Campbell, J. Duncan