ray : | |||||||||||||
cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence any of the stiff bony rods in the fin of a fish emit as rays; "That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky" a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization expose to radiation; "irradiate food" extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center; "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiates spines in all directions" a column of light (as from a beacon) |
|||||||||||||
|