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  • past participle of ray.
  • past tense form 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

Heaven-flowers, rayed by shadows golden From the palms they sprang beneath, Now perhaps divinely holden, Swing against him in a wreath: We may think so from the quickening of his bloom and of his breath.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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