Word.ws English Dictionary

crepuscular rays

crepuscular rays is the plural of crepuscular ray.

Meaning of crepuscular ray

Noun

crepuscular ray (plural crepuscular rays)

  1. A sunbeam seen just after sunset or just before sunrise, caused by a cloud below the horizon and dust particles in the air above the horizon.
  2. A cloud shadow cast on the bright sky.

Questions about crepuscular rays

What is crepuscular rays the plural of?
Crepuscular rays is the plural of crepuscular ray.

Words near crepuscular rays in the dictionary

  1. creptst
  2. crepuscle
  3. crepuscles
  4. crepuscular
  5. crepuscular ray
  6. crepuscular rays
  7. crepuscularities
  8. crepuscularity
  9. crepuscularly
  10. crepuscule
  11. crepuscules

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crepuscular rays (page history and authors); crepuscular ray (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “crepuscular rays.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/crepuscular_rays. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.