| ray flower n. A flower with a flat, strap-shaped corolla, found in members of the composite family, as the units of a flower head of the dandelion or the marginal units of a flower head of the daisy. |
| ray flower One of the narrow flowers, resembling single petals, that surround the central disk in the capitulum or flower cluster of a plant of the composite family (Asteraceae or Compositae), such as the daisy or sunflower. Rays are often male flowers with sterile stamens. Also called ray, ray floret. See illustration at disk flower. |
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| Noun | 1. |  ray flower - small flower with a flat strap-shaped corolla usually occupying the peripheral rings of a composite flowerblossom, flower, bloom - reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts 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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