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(noun) cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins |
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Related Words: crampfish, devilfish, eagle ray, elasmobranch, electric ray, guitarfish, manta, manta ray, numbfish, sawfish, selachian, skate, stingray, torpedo |
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(noun) any of the stiff bony rods in the fin of a fish |
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Related Words: spine |
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(verb) emit as rays |
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Related Words: emit, give off, give out |
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(noun) a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence |
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Related Words: pedicel |
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(noun) (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point |
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Related Words: vector |
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(verb) send out real or metaphoric rays; "She radiates happiness" |
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Synonyms: radiate |
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Related Words: breathe, effuse, emit, give off, give off, pass off |
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(verb) expose to radiation; "irradiate food" |
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Synonyms: irradiate |
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Related Words: process, treat |
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(verb) extend like the radii of a circle |
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Synonyms: radiate |
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Related Words: extend, go, lead, pass, run |
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(noun) the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization |
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Synonyms: re |
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Related Words: solfa syllable |
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(noun) a column of light (as from a beacon) |
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Synonyms: beam, beam of light, light beam, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light |
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Related Words: laser beam, light, moonbeam, moonray, sunbeam, sunray, visible light, visible radiation |
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