ray flower

ray flower
noun
small flower with a flat strap-shaped corolla usually occupying the peripheral rings of a composite flower
Syn: ↑ray floret
Hypernyms: ↑flower, ↑bloom, ↑blossom
Part Holonyms: ↑flower head

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noun or ray floret
1. : one of the flowers with strap-shaped corolla occupying the margin of the head in composite plants that also have disk flowers (as aster, goldenrod, daisy, and sunflower) or making up the entire head when disk flowers are lacking (as in chicory) — see composite illustration
2. : one of the usually larger flowers at the margin of the umbel in some plants of the family Umbelliferae

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Bot.
one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy. Also called ray floret.
[1850-55]

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ray flower or ray floret noun
Any of the small flowers radiating out from the margin of the flower-head of certain composite plants
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Main Entry:ray

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ray flower or ray floret,
one of the marginal flowers or florets of a daisy, aster, or other composite flower head, resembling a petal.

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