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ray

noun verb

cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins

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Word length
3
Starts with
R
Ends with
Y
Contains
A
Scrabble score
6
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

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noun

  1. cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins

noun

  1. any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish

noun

  1. the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization

noun

  1. a column of light (as from a beacon)

noun

  1. a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation

noun

  1. a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence

noun

  1. (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point

verb

  1. expose to radiation

    “irradiate food”

verb

  1. extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center

    “spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel”

verb

  1. emit as rays

    “That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky”

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irradiate food
spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel
This plants radiate spines in all directions
That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky

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