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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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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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Any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish
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The syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
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A column of light (as from a beacon)
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A group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
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A branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
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(mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
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Expose to radiation
“Irradiate food”
verb
Extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
“Spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel”
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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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