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Noun: sunray  'sún,rey
  1. 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
    - Enceliopsis nudicaulis
     
  2. A ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lamp
    - sun-ray
     
  3. A ray of sunlight
    "raindrops caught in a sunray seem to opalesce";
    - sunbeam

Derived forms: sun-rays, sunrays

Type of: beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, ultraviolet, ultraviolet illumination, ultraviolet light, ultraviolet radiation, UV, wild flower, wildflower

Part of: Enceliopsis, genus Enceliopsis, sun, sunlight, sunshine

Encyclopedia: Sunray, TX