a pine tree, Pinus radiata, native to the western USA. but grown in Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere to produce building timber
Often shortened to: radiata
Word origin
from New Latin
Radiata in American English
(ˌreidiˈeitə, -ˈɑːtə)
plural noun
Biology(in some classification systems)
a major grouping that includes more or less radially symmetrical animals, as coelenterates (jellyfish, sea anemones, corals), ctenophores (comb jellies), and echinoderms (starfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers)
Word origin
[1820–30; ‹ NL, n. use of neut. pl. of L radiātusradiate (adj.)]This word is first recorded in the period 1820–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acetate, blouse, boomerang, karma, tetrapod
Examples of 'radiata' in a sentence
radiata
These xylem tissues represent six typical development stages in a rotation period of radiata pine.
Dillon Shannon K, Wu Harry X, Li Xinguo, Southerton Simon G 2009, 'Generation and analysis of expressed sequence tags from six developing xylem librariesin Pinus radiata D. Don', BMC Genomicshttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/10/41. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In contrast, corticobasal syndrome patients had greater damage to the midbody of the corpus callosum and perirolandic corona radiata.
Fernanda Tovar-Moll, Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza, Ivanei Edson Bramati, Roland Zahn,Alyson Cavanagh, Michael Tierney, Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman 2014, 'White Matter Tract Damage in the Behavioral Variant of Frontotemporal and CorticobasalDementia Syndromes', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0102656. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Finally, the zona radiata was mainly proteinaceous in nature and was composed of calcium and neutral glycoproteins.
Juan B. Ortiz-Delgado, Serena Porcelloni, Cristina Fossi, Carmen Sarasquete 2008, 'Histochemical characterisation of oocytes of the swordfish Xiphias gladius',Scientia Marinahttp://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/view/1020. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Poor temporal congruence was otherwise linked to lesions in the more rostrally located white matter of the superior corona radiata.
Kristine eOostra, Anke eVan Bladel, Ann Christiane Leen Vanhoonacker, Guy eVingerhoets 2016, 'Damage to fronto-parietal networks impairs motor imagery ability after stroke:A voxel-basedlesion symptom mapping study.', Frontiers in Behavioral Neurosciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00005/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Magnetic resonance imaging revealed discrete focal lesions of the pons (paracentral left) and parietal corona radiata of the left hemisphere.
Milovanović Aleksandar P.S., Milovanović Jovica, Torbica Nikola 2006, 'Work ability evaluation in neurosarcoidosis: A case report', Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvohttp://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0370-8179/2006/0370-81790606238M.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The third and fourth zona radiata layers were disrupted and disorganized with a missing cortical alveolar layer.
Rania F. Ismail, Mona M. Mourad, Reham M. Negm, Samira S. Assem 2017, 'Effect of prolonged exposure to thyroxine on growth, puberty timing and ovarian structurein female red tilapia (Oreochromis sp.)', Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Researchhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1687428517300687. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)