1. ray_floret
noun. small flower with a flat strap-shaped corolla usually occupying the peripheral rings of a composite flower.
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2. floret
noun. a diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower).
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- floret (English)
- florete (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
- -ete (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
5. ray
verb. ['ˈreɪ'] extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center.
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6. ray
noun. ['ˈreɪ'] cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins.
9. ray
noun. ['ˈreɪ'] the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
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10. ray
noun. ['ˈreɪ'] a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation.