Word.ws English Dictionary

diactine

diactine adjective: diactinal; having two rays.

Adjective

diactine (not comparable)

  1. diactinal; having two rays

Noun

diactine (plural diactines)

  1. A spicule (of a sponge) that has two pointed arms

Forms of diactine

pluraldiactines

Origin of diactine

di- + ancient Greek ἀκτίς aktis meaning ray

Questions about diactine

What does diactine mean?
Diactine means diactinal; having two rays.
What part of speech is diactine?
Diactine can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near diactine in the dictionary

  1. diacrylates
  2. diacrylic
  3. diact
  4. diactin
  5. diactinal
  6. diactine
  7. diactines
  8. diactinic
  9. diactinism
  10. diactins
  11. diactivated

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: diactine (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: “diactine.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/diactine. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.