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

rayed

American  

[rayd] / 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

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Etymology

Origin of rayed

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

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Example Sentences

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rayed

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

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

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

A variety of fennel, F. dulce, having the stem compressed at the base, and the umbel 6-8 rayed, is grown in kitchen-gardens for the sake of its leaves.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

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