ray flower

ray flower

n. Any of the small tubular flowers having a corolla with a long strap-shaped lobe, found in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the units of a flower head of a dandelion or the marginal units of a flower head of a daisy. Also called ray floret.

ray′ flow`er

n. one of the flattened marginal florets surrounding the disk in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy. Also called ray′ floret`. [1850–55]

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ray flower - small flower with a flat strap-shaped corolla usually occupying the peripheral rings of a composite flowerray floretblossom, flower, bloom - reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful partsflower head - a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae