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SUNRAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sunray mean? 

SUNRAY (noun)
  The noun SUNRAY has 3 senses:

1. a ray of sunlightplay

2. herb having a basal cluster of grey-green leaves and leafless stalks each with a solitary broad yellow flower head; desert areas Idaho to Arizonaplay

3. a ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lampplay

  Familiarity information: SUNRAY used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


SUNRAY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A ray of sunlight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

sunbeam; sunray

Hypernyms ("sunray" is a kind of...):

beam; beam of light; irradiation; light beam; ray; ray of light; shaft; shaft of light (a column of light (as from a beacon))

Holonyms ("sunray" is a part of...):

sun; sunlight; sunshine (the rays of the sun)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Herb having a basal cluster of grey-green leaves and leafless stalks each with a solitary broad yellow flower head; desert areas Idaho to Arizona

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Enceliopsis nudicaulis; sunray

Hypernyms ("sunray" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Holonyms ("sunray" is a member of...):

Enceliopsis; genus Enceliopsis (small genus of xerophytic herbs of southwestern United States)


Sense 3

Meaning:

A ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lamp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

sun-ray; sunray

Hypernyms ("sunray" is a kind of...):

ultraviolet; ultraviolet illumination; ultraviolet light; ultraviolet radiation; UV (radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays)


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