RAY FLOWER

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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:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

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