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

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

Thus the anemone thanked the Child, and from all its sensitive points and its rayed lips came to him a soft chorus of sweet vibrations of pleasure.

From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle