Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To emit something as if in rays. · To radiate as if in rays. · To expose to radiation.
A beam of light or radiation. · 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.
Via Middle English, borrowed from Old French rai, from Latin radius (“staff, stake, spoke”). Doublet of radius.
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