Definition for RA'DI-ATE

RA'DI-ATE, a.

In botany, a rayed or radiate flower, is compound flower consisting of a disk, in which the corollets or florets are tubular, and of a ray, in which the floret are ligulate or strap-shaped. – Martyn. Or a flower with several semiflosculous florets set round a disk in form of a radiant star. – Encyc.

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