Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ray-shaped: in botany, applied to flowers which may be divided vertically into similar halves through two or more planes: synonymous with polysymmetrical.
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- adjective botany (of a flower) Having
petals arranged in aradially symmetric pattern.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of division into symmetrical halves by any longitudinal plane passing through the axis
Etymologies
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actino- + -morphous
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Examples
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The farm as a protrusion of the actinomorphous mariposan of new chimpanzee statistic to oppenheimer with the fibril act.
Rational Review 2009
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