rayed

American  

[reyd] / reɪd /

adjective

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

   The saint was painted with a rayed, beatific face.

2. having zoological or botanical rays ray (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

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