ray
/ɹeɪ/ noun A2- A beam of light or radiation. · I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
- A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
- One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
- A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
- A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
Plural rays
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They turned and walked through the forest a few steps, when Dorothy discovered something shining in a ray of sunshine that fell between the trees.
The Traveler no sooner felt his genial rays than he took off one garment after another, and at last, fairly overcome with heat, undressed and bathed in a stream that lay in his path.
The window panes were of green glass; even the sky above the City had a green tint, and the rays of the sun were green.
As the rays diminish,
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