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RAY FLOWER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small flower with a flat strap-shaped corolla usually occupying the peripheral rings of a composite flower
Synonyms:
ray floret; ray flower
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ray flower" is a kind of...):
bloom; blossom; flower (reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts)
Holonyms ("ray flower" is a part of...):
flower head (a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae)